Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:22:04 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20100910 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, September 10, 2010 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- P.Kundurthy P.Kundurthy Agile 19:10 01:01 J.Coughlin J.Coughlin DIS 01:04 02:00 J.Gauthier H.Chen DIS 02:05 05:50 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- UW02/R 19:25 01:05 0 0 0 0 4.5 1.2 0 0 NM03/R 01:05 02:05 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 UC01/R 02:05 06:36 0 0 0 0 4.5 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Huehnerhoff Clear start to the night with some light atmospheric structure passing through around 2300MT. Seeing degraded shortly around the same time. Moderate seeing the remainder of the night. Spicam 1730 184.6K 0600 180.4K ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:06 AGILE 150(-1565) 56 50 13.1 14.7 14.0 13.4 13.8 SDSS r' 1.01 01:09 dis-slit 115( 343) -120 40 13.1 12.2 13.1 12.0 12.6 clear 2.13 02:08 dis-slit 153( 389) -2 48 12.5 12.6 13.0 12.4 12.6 clear 1.57 03:22 dis-slit 37( 233) -29 53 10.8 11.9 11.8 11.5 11.5 clear 1.49 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 62 32 14 264 (W) 846 clear none 17:00 64 32 16 286 (WNW) 714 clear none 18:00 62 26 9 265 (W) 689 clear none 19:00 59 27 14 288 (WNW) 756 clear none 20:00 57 24 9 274 (W) 683 clear none 21:00 54 25 10 267 (W) 716 clear none 22:00 55 24 7 267 (W) 722 clear none 23:00 55 23 1 239 (WSW) 652 clear none 00:00 55 23 7 319 (NW) 677 clear none 01:00 55 24 8 312 (NW) 632 clear none 02:00 56 24 9 302 (WNW) 625 clear none 03:00 53 24 6 331 (NNW) 659 clear none 04:00 53 24 7 20 (NNE) 738 clear none 05:00 52 25 11 8 (N) 702 clear none 06:00 53 24 10 11 (N) 784 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: 2.13.0 Current TUI version: 1.8.1