Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20111023 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, October 23, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- R.Mandelbaum M.Hilton SPICAM 18:30 00:56 S.Schmidt J.Davenport, H.GunningDIS 01:10 06:20 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- PU03/R 18:30 01:00 0 0 0 0 6.5 0.0 0 0 UW03/R 01:00 07:06 0 0 0 0 3.7 2.4 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Shelden, R.McMillan (remote) Night uneventful, with excellent seeing most of the night. Tsepc vaccuum is fine ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:15 SPICAM 343( 532) 65 34 11.5 13.7 12.8 12.9 11.3 SDSS r 1.10 19:18 NA2gdr 4232(34232) 64 35 11.4 13.6 12.7 12.8 11.3 clear 1.20 20:01 NA2gdr -396(29603) 56 42 11.6 12.4 11.9 11.7 10.9 clear 1.10 21:06 SPICAM 230( 275) 47 46 11.1 11.3 11.0 10.6 10.4 SDSS i 1.23 01:16 dis-slit 310( 172) -57 33 10.9 10.2 10.6 10.0 10.5 -- 1.13 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 62 20 10 288 (WNW) 469 clear none 17:00 59 19 10 298 (WNW) 514 clear none 18:00 54 19 1 276 (W) 453 clear none 19:00 53 18 8 359 (N) 448 clear none 20:00 53 19 7 357 (N) 470 clear none 21:00 52 19 4 346 (NNW) 515 clear none 22:00 51 19 5 207 (SSW) 513 clear none 23:00 52 19 6 198 (SSW) 466 clear none 00:00 49 19 6 183 (S) 562 clear none 01:00 52 18 9 194 (SSW) 521 clear none 02:00 52 18 8 188 (S) 482 clear none 03:00 51 18 9 183 (S) 505 clear none 04:00 51 18 11 186 (S) 664 clear none 05:00 51 18 9 187 (S) 556 clear none 06:00 51 16 13 218 (SW) 546 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