From: Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20111021 Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:35:06 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, October 21, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- R.Mandelbaum M.Gralla,T.Wei, D.Crichton SPICAM 19:30 00:58 A.McKay A.McKay ECHELLE 01:00 05:54 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 06:00 07:02 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- PU03/R 18:32 01:00 0 0 0 0 6.5 0.0 0 0 NM01/R 01:00 06:04 0 0 0 0 1.4 3.6 0 0 DD01/R 06:04 07:04 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Photometric all night with good to excellent seeing, even when the wind picked up near dawn. At the start of the night the gmech was not responding and I had to ask Jon Brinkmann to help restart it, but once that was cleared up everything worked perfectly. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:06 SPICAM 268( 364) 129 66 10.4 12.7 12.2 11.9 10.3 i 0.62 19:42 NA2gdr 1991(31991) 64 34 10.4 11.6 11.2 10.6 9.7 R 1.00 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 56 19 13 273 (W) 558 clear none 17:00 53 19 10 315 (NW) 532 clear none 18:00 53 19 9 298 (WNW) 607 clear none 19:00 51 19 10 324 (NW) 611 clear none 20:00 51 21 8 319 (NW) 654 clear none 21:00 51 21 12 290 (WNW) 650 clear none 22:00 51 22 8 258 (WSW) 708 clear none 23:00 50 21 9 265 (W) 674 clear none 00:00 47 21 8 262 (W) 677 clear none 01:00 50 23 9 281 (W) 762 clear none 02:00 51 23 13 297 (WNW) 725 clear none 03:00 50 23 5 305 (NW) 739 clear none 04:00 49 17 14 18 (NNE) 612 clear none 05:00 48 17 15 3 (N) 623 clear none 06:00 48 16 14 10 (N) 696 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