From: Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20111012 Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, October 12, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Klaene R.McMillan DIS,NA2,SH,Agile 19:30 06:15 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN01/R 18:43 01:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 6.3 0 0 EN01/R 01:00 06:57 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.9 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Photometric with poor seeing at the very start of the night that later settled to subarcsecond. Lots of engineering tasks finished. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:52 dis-slit 276( 217) 86 69 7.9 12.5 11.0 12.1 9.4 - 1.90 22:38 dis-slit 277( 114) 280 75 11.1 10.6 10.8 10.5 10.9 - 1.08 23:17 dis-slit 268( 114) 272 67 11.1 10.7 11.1 10.9 10.8 - 0.91 23:51 dis-slit 374( 222) 268 59 10.8 10.6 11.1 10.7 10.7 - 0.91 00:04 dis-slit 333( 181) 266 57 10.8 10.6 11.0 10.6 10.6 - 0.86 00:20 dis-slit 341( 191) 264 53 10.8 10.6 11.0 10.5 10.6 - 0.96 04:52 AGILE -1350(-2037) 184 70 10.0 9.1 9.4 9.2 9.6 r 0.53 04:57 AGILE -1350(-2032) 186 70 9.9 9.2 9.5 9.3 9.8 r 0.53 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 57 24 7 294 (WNW) 568 clear none 17:00 59 24 7 211 (SSW) 527 clear none 18:00 57 21 3 275 (W) 505 clear none 19:00 51 20 4 324 (NW) 535 clear none 20:00 49 20 7 6 (N) 498 clear none 21:00 49 21 3 103 (ESE) 484 clear none 22:00 53 21 8 226 (SW) 552 clear none 23:00 52 21 6 262 (W) 533 clear none 00:00 52 21 6 305 (NW) 506 clear none 01:00 51 20 14 319 (NW) 464 clear none 02:00 50 22 10 317 (NW) 475 clear none 03:00 50 23 7 333 (NNW) 475 clear none 04:00 49 23 8 332 (NNW) 544 clear none 05:00 50 21 8 321 (NW) 510 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: 2.15.0 Current TUI version: 1.9.3