Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:43:41 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20111015 From: "Gabrelle Saurage" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, October 16, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- S.Hawley A.Brown Echelle 18:57 00:58 M.Kasliwal M.Kasliwal DIS 01:01 06:30 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW04/R 18:38 01:00 0 0 0 0 2.8 3.6 0 0 PU02/R 01:00 07:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 6.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: G.Saurage Echelle slitvier behaved much better tonight. Still saw these guiding failures: 04:47:54 UW04.AlexBrown.ecam 3117 ecamera f text="unexpected input: error writing row 423 of image data to file: guider:gimg0698.fits; error: No Error" 04:47:54 UW04.AlexBrown 89 ecam f text="text=\"unexpected input: error writing row 423 of image data to file: guider:gimg0698.fits; error: No Error\"" 04:59:29 UW04.AlexBrown.ecam 3218 ecamera f text="unexpected input: error writing row 298 of image data to file: guider:gimg0717.fits; error: No Error" 04:59:29 UW04.AlexBrown 95 ecam f text="text=\"unexpected input: error writing row 298 of image data to file: guider:gimg0717.fits; error: No Error\"" 05:09:02 UW04.AlexBrown.ecam 3305 ecamera f text="unexpected input: error writing row 26 of image data to file: guider:gimg0734.fits; error: No Error" 05:09:02 UW04.AlexBrown 108 ecam f text="text=\"unexpected input: error writing row 26 of image data to file: guider:gimg0734.fits; error: No Error\"" 05:40:00 UW04.AlexBrown.ecam 3612 ecamera f text="unexpected input: error writing row 451 of image data to file: guider:gimg0789.fits; error: No Error" 05:40:00 UW04.AlexBrown 119 ecam f text="text=\"unexpected input: error writing row 451 of image data to file: guider:gimg0789.fits; error: No Error\"" Otherwise, clear skies, good seeing. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:18 ECHELLE 480( -442) 194 73 14.3 16.3 15.6 15.8 14.5 0.71 01:10 dis-slit 261( 270) 275 24 13.1 12.7 13.1 12.8 12.8 2.21 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 63 21 11 281 (W) 487 clear none 17:00 61 18 3 256 (WSW) 339 clear none 18:00 59 18 10 309 (NW) 467 clear none 19:00 57 19 8 305 (NW) 498 clear none 20:00 58 19 9 284 (WNW) 505 clear none 21:00 57 20 9 253 (WSW) 491 clear none 22:00 57 21 11 234 (SW) 589 clear none 23:00 56 21 13 228 (SW) 725 clear none 00:00 56 21 13 242 (WSW) 772 clear none 01:00 56 20 11 262 (W) 1059 clear none 02:00 56 20 17 283 (WNW) 784 clear none 03:00 55 19 14 283 (WNW) 735 clear none 04:00 54 20 14 285 (WNW) 711 clear none 05:00 53 20 19 285 (WNW) 765 clear none 06:00 53 21 21 297 (WNW) 1019 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