Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:37:14 -0700 (MST) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110222 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, February 22, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- C.Churchill J.Evans, E.Klimek SPICAM 17:45 00:05 J.Coughlin J.Coughlin SPICAM 00:05 06:30 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- NM04/R 18:03 00:10 0 0 0 0 5.2 0.9 0 0 NM01/R 00:10 06:30 0 0 0 0 0.0 6.3 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Huehnerhoff Photometric night with poor seeing at the start improving several hours after opening. gcam spontaneously aborted at 10:25, 11:39, and 12:23UTC. When turning the fans off at 13:04:26UTC there was a telmech error: "invalid literal for int()". The fans did turn off when commanded. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01:38 SPICAM 67( -235) 128 48 2.5 4.7 3.5 3.2 3.2 SDSS u' 2.20 07:13 SPICAM 53( -413) 76 72 1.6 1.7 2.0 1.2 1.6 MSSSO V 1.01 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 45 13 20 262 (W) 610 clear none 17:00 42 13 15 213 (SSW) 677 clear none 18:00 38 12 18 262 (W) 745 clear none 19:00 37 11 13 233 (SW) 673 clear none 20:00 36 11 15 235 (SW) 749 clear none 21:00 37 11 17 227 (SW) 802 clear none 22:00 37 11 19 235 (SW) 783 clear none 23:00 36 8 16 247 (WSW) 784 clear none 00:00 36 6 14 260 (W) 728 clear none 01:00 35 6 16 249 (WSW) 790 clear none 02:00 34 6 12 264 (W) 763 clear none 03:00 34 7 9 262 (W) 755 clear none 04:00 33 6 11 274 (W) 783 clear none 05:00 33 6 10 267 (W) 972 clear none 06:00 33 8 12 306 (NW) 870 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: 2.14.0 Current TUI version: 1.8.6