Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:00:06 +0000 Subject: [35m-nightlogs] 3.5m Night Log 20110320 From: Nicholas Ule Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, March 20, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- G.Wolf-Chase M.Smutko NIC-FPS 19:00 00:15 T.Murphy T.Murphy APOLLO 00:21 02:12 S.Schmidt S.Schmidt TSPEC 02:23 06:55 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- UC03/R 19:23 01:10 0 0 0 0 1.4 3.4 0 1.0 UW13/R 01:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 UW09/R 02:10 06:58 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: N.Ule Excellent night for observing. First observers targets set before scheduled finish time. Second observers added that additional time to their own. Third observer started at the regularlly scheduled time, fought high patchy clouds. During checkout noticed problem with communications with ecam. See related PR for details. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:50 NICFPS 150( 495) 216 49 9.1 10.8 9.7 9.5 9.4 Ks 0.90 02:22 TSPEC 237( 188) -52 41 8.5 8.6 8.8 8.2 8.3 1.7 1.20 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 59 12 12 197 (SSW) 2773 clear none 17:00 56 11 21 233 (SW) 2340 clear none 18:00 53 10 18 219 (SW) 1934 mstly clr none 19:00 49 6 18 196 (SSW) 1617 clear none 20:00 48 3 18 184 (S) 1404 clear none 21:00 49 3 20 189 (S) 1021 clear none 22:00 50 3 23 204 (SSW) 906 clear none 23:00 50 5 19 187 (S) 867 clear none 00:00 49 2 18 180 (S) 641 clear none 01:00 50 6 29 193 (SSW) 976 clear none 02:00 48 5 24 194 (SSW) 801 mstly clr none 03:00 48 4 21 196 (SSW) 974 ptly cldy none 04:00 45 2 16 205 (SSW) 1024 ptly cldy none 05:00 46 2 24 207 (SSW) 1257 ptly cldy none 06:00 44 1 24 217 (SW) 842 ptly cldy 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