Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:55:49 -0700 (MST) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110310 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, March 10, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- W.Ketzeback J.Huehnerhoff ECHELLE/TSPEC 18:15 19:10 P.Szkody A.Mukadam Agile 19:15 00:05 L.Pueyo L.Pueyo, M.McElwain TSPEC 00:10 18:10 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- DD04/O 18:16 19:16 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 UW04/R 19:16 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.4 4.5 0 0 JH05/R 00:10 06:11 0 0 0 0 6.0 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Huehnerhoff Cloudy skies to start the night. Excellent seeing the entire night. No problems except for the Agile error. Agile had problem around 07:45UTC. During dark sequence there was an error. Restarting Nubs did not work, restarting runAgileICC did not work. Restarting Nimble solved the problem. This error occurred after running agile without problems for 5 hours. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:22 TSPEC 284( 279) 210 77 6.5 10.2 7.1 9.5 10.1 -- 0.95 18:43 ECHELLE 334( -955) 218 75 6.6 9.4 7.2 8.2 7.8 ND2 0.79 19:21 AGILE -1350(-2111) 137 71 6.8 8.0 6.8 7.1 6.9 BG40 0.94 00:18 TSPEC 95( -128) 26 83 6.1 5.7 6.0 5.2 5.6 -- 1.07 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 49 5 8 254 (WSW) 3265 mstly cldy none 17:00 46 2 8 197 (SSW) 3474 mstly cldy none 18:00 44 0 6 184 (S) 3933 cloudy none 19:00 44 3 12 182 (S) 2859 cloudy none 20:00 45 6 14 193 (SSW) 2664 mstly cldy none 21:00 45 6 14 186 (S) 2688 mstly cldy none 22:00 44 7 15 197 (SSW) 2552 mstly clr none 23:00 44 8 15 188 (S) 2563 mstly clr none 00:00 43 8 16 196 (SSW) 2464 clear none 01:00 43 9 15 192 (SSW) 2519 clear none 02:00 42 9 15 214 (SW) 2400 clear none 03:00 40 9 16 233 (SW) 2490 clear none 04:00 42 10 14 252 (WSW) 2937 clear none 05:00 42 9 19 264 (W) 3158 clear none 06:00 43 9 16 265 (W) 3257 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