Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:09:19 -0700 (MST) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110127 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, January 27, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Mukadam A.Mukadam Agile 17:35 05:50 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 05:52 07:00 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- UW03/R 17:40 05:52 0 0 0 0 8.8 3.4 0 0 DD02/O 05:52 06:52 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Huehnerhoff Clear night with poor seeing at beginning and end of night and good seeing during the middle of the night. No problems other than the agile hang described below. Trouble with agile during evening cals (same problem during morning cals). During bias sequence it aborted and the camera disconnected. Could not reconnected camera through Nubs, had to reboot Nimble (occurred at 00:17UT and 12:40UT). ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:05 AGILE -1500(-2452) 128 30 0.9 3.0 1.5 1.8 1.8 BG40 1.67 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 34 8 6 5 (N) 385 clear none 17:00 35 2 1 312 (NW) 433 clear none 18:00 32 1 8 5 (N) 358 clear none 19:00 33 -9 12 37 (NE) 437 clear none 20:00 35 2 10 65 (ENE) 411 clear none 21:00 35 -6 1 70 (ENE) 342 clear none 22:00 35 3 1 189 (S) 319 clear none 23:00 36 -3 1 233 (SW) 385 clear none 00:00 36 -7 3 303 (WNW) 407 clear none 01:00 36 -6 3 326 (NW) 391 clear none 02:00 34 0 7 341 (NNW) 330 clear none 03:00 34 0 7 340 (NNW) 313 clear none 04:00 35 -1 5 341 (NNW) 323 clear none 05:00 34 1 5 351 (N) 313 clear none 06:00 34 2 9 346 (NNW) 309 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