Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 06:33:02 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20100705 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, July 05, 2010 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- P. Kundurthy P. Kundurthy Agile 20:15 00:59 J. Stocke J. Khargaria, H. Quyen SPIcam 01:02 05:57 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- UW02/R 20:24 01:05 0 0 0 0 4.7 0 0 0 DD06/R 01:05 05:52 0 0 0 0 0.2 4.6 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J. Huehnerhoff Clear night with stable subarcsecond seeing much of the night. No problems to report. Spicam 1830 176.5K 0600 170.7K ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21:05 AGILE -50(-1501) 57 48 18.0 20.0 18.5 18.1 18.4 SDSS r' 0.94 01:10 SPICAM 65( 745) -10 57 16.3 16.7 17.0 15.4 16.4 SDSS r' 0.90 01:12 NA2gdr 905(30905) -11 57 15.7 16.7 17.0 15.4 16.4 clear 1.20 04:29 SPICAM 99(661) -69 35 14.9 14.8 14.9 14.0 14.5 SDSS i' 0.79 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 70 25 8 340 (NNW) 902 clear none 17:00 72 30 16 307 (NW) 829 clear none 18:00 71 27 14 287 (WNW) 798 clear none 19:00 70 26 12 274 (W) 737 clear none 20:00 67 22 4 262 (W) 700 clear none 21:00 65 19 1 15 (NNE) 667 clear none 22:00 64 23 4 55 (NE) 724 clear none 23:00 64 19 2 44 (NE) 651 clear none 00:00 64 19 1 268 (W) 747 clear none 01:00 63 19 6 106 (ESE) 663 clear none 02:00 60 27 11 115 (ESE) 745 clear none 03:00 60 36 13 124 (SE) 1189 clear none 04:00 60 37 15 128 (SE) 1121 clear none 05:00 59 37 18 127 (SE) 1196 clear none 06:00 59 38 15 134 (SE) 989 clear none Note: the wind was coming from the azimuth listed. The convention used is north=0 degrees, east=90 degrees. The dust count is particles > 1u per 0.1 cubic feet. TELESCOPE STATUS Telescope drives operational. Current TCC version: 2.11.1 Current TUI version: 1.7.4