Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:47:40 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110113 From: "Gabrelle Saurage" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, January 13, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- R.Hamilton R.Hamilton TSPEC 17:42 22:56 W.Ketzeback G.Saurage TSPEC,ECHELLE 23:00 00:02 T.Thuan Y.Izotov TSPEC 00:05 06:20 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- NM03/R 17:27 23:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.7 0 0 NM05/R 23:10 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 UV04/R 00:10 06:57 0 0 0 0 4.7 2.1 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: G.Saurage Photometric night good seeing. No problems. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:56 TSPEC 325( 8) 73 61 2.1 3.6 2.6 2.8 2.6 1.17 23:05 TSPEC 53( -329) -127 68 2.6 2.4 2.7 2.0 2.3 0.66 23:36 ECHELLE 53(-1587) -124 64 2.4 2.2 2.4 1.7 2.0 ND3 0.87 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 36 11 16 10 (N) 293 clear none 17:00 35 6 15 6 (N) 130 clear none 18:00 36 8 16 18 (NNE) 188 clear none 19:00 36 9 24 21 (NNE) 165 clear none 20:00 38 11 13 48 (NE) 393 clear none 21:00 38 12 20 14 (NNE) 239 clear none 22:00 37 12 20 18 (NNE) 220 clear none 23:00 37 13 19 15 (NNE) 200 clear none 00:00 35 12 13 10 (N) 196 clear none 01:00 39 14 4 28 (NNE) 274 clear none 02:00 39 12 10 25 (NNE) 315 clear none 03:00 39 11 8 10 (N) 313 clear none 04:00 37 11 8 356 (N) 246 clear none 05:00 35 12 8 343 (NNW) 163 clear none 06:00 37 11 11 324 (NW) 154 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: 2.14.0 Current TUI version: 1.8.5