Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20111020 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:17:02 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, October 20, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- S.Hawley A.Brown Echelle 18:30 01:09 J.Greene J.Greene TSPEC 01:09 05:40 W.Ketzeback J.Dembicky TSPEC 05:40 06:50 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW04/R 18:33 01:00 0 0 0 0 6.4 0.0 0 0 PU06/R 01:00 06:03 0 0 0 0 0.4 4.7 0 0 NM05/W 06:03 07:03 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky My 2nd half observer reported that she was having problems with TUI sending her data to her. It seemed to be working fine and then stopped transfering data. She was getting slit images but had noted earlier that some of those weren't refreshed. I had here log out of TUI and back in, but that didn't work. I then had her log out and restart TUI on her machine, which worked (for a while). She was running TUI 1.8.1. Data was being written fine here at APO and I gave her instructions as to how to manually transfer the data. My theory is data may have just been getting backlogged with the older TUI version and a slower internet connection. I forgot to fill TSPEC last night (meant to and then forgot after I mounted it to the telescope). I keep an eye on the temps all night and no problem. Instrument filled in the morning, so expect a shorter than normal fill ths afternoon. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:54 ECHELLE 534( -506) 184 49 12.4 13.6 12.7 13.1 12.1 ND3 0.89 19:53 ECHELLE 372( -745) 215 68 12.1 12.4 12.0 11.8 11.4 ND1 0.72 01:18 TSPEC 383( 424) 22 57 10.8 10.4 11.0 10.6 10.3 Ks 1.10 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 57 24 13 275 (W) 1491 clear none 17:00 57 22 9 272 (W) 1278 clear none 18:00 56 22 14 275 (W) 1424 clear none 19:00 54 21 7 259 (W) 1547 clear none 20:00 53 20 11 218 (SW) 1657 clear none 21:00 53 18 16 210 (SSW) 1118 clear none 22:00 52 21 9 261 (W) 1135 clear none 23:00 52 20 12 281 (W) 1049 clear none 00:00 52 22 5 267 (W) 1141 clear none 01:00 53 22 12 294 (WNW) 1103 clear none 02:00 50 22 6 285 (WNW) 1206 clear none 03:00 50 23 6 358 (N) 1158 clear none 04:00 51 20 13 28 (NNE) 1260 clear none 05:00 50 16 16 29 (NNE) 593 clear none 06:00 50 15 12 35 (NE) 688 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