Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 06:42:00 -0700 (MST) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110107 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, January 07, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Gauthier J.Gauthier DIS 17:00 23:02 W.Ketzeback J.Huehnerhoff ECHELLE 23:14 00:04 C.Churchill J.Evans SPICAM 00:07 03:20 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- UC01/R 17:22 23:10 0 0 0 0 2.5 3.3 0 0 NM05/O 23:10 00:10 0 0 0 0 1.0 0.0 0 0 NM04/R 00:10 06:58 3.6 0 0 0 3.2 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Huehnerhoff Clear night with variable seeing for the first 2 hours. Very fast building radar returns swept across the state starting at 0230MT causing us to close a little after 0300MT. Clouds and radar returns for the rest of the night. During changeover to NM04 program AGILE collimation data was taken. No change noticed from previous data taken. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:45 dis-slit 268( -232) -16 71 3.4 6.2 4.4 4.7 5.0 -- 1.10 23:20 ECHELLE 108(-1562) 230 70 1.6 1.6 1.7 1.0 1.3 ND3 0.77 00:13 SPICAM 27( -442) 100 51 1.0 1.4 1.5 0.8 1.1 SDSS g' 0.92 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 43 1 0 212 (SSW) 291 clear none 17:00 42 0 5 4 (N) 204 clear none 18:00 38 -2 1 346 (NNW) 202 clear none 19:00 37 7 3 24 (NNE) 198 clear none 20:00 37 9 3 188 (S) 225 clear none 21:00 37 9 2 137 (SE) 309 clear none 22:00 36 10 2 151 (SSE) 293 clear none 23:00 35 9 9 197 (SSW) 190 clear none 00:00 35 8 11 221 (SW) 249 clear none 01:00 34 14 11 237 (WSW) 212 clear none 02:00 34 15 8 217 (SW) 181 mstly cldy none 03:00 33 10 10 183 (S) 426 cloudy none 04:00 34 12 16 207 (SSW) 338 cloudy none 05:00 33 13 6 253 (WSW) 338 cloudy none 06:00 31 15 16 250 (WSW) 444 cloudy 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