Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:50:56 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110323 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, March 23, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Hughes J.Hughes SPICAM 19:10 01:05 P.Kundurthy P.Kundurthy Agile 01:07 06:45 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- UW07/R 19:25 01:10 0 0 0 0 4.8 1.0 0 0 UW01/R 01:10 06:54 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.7 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Huehnerhoff Good seeing at start of the night getting worse after twilight. Wind picked up during second half but nothing above closure limit and no affect on telescope performance. Agile worked great. There were no troubles with stopping sequences. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:57 SPICAM 206( 124) 220 37 6.7 8.8 7.1 7.2 7.2 MSSSO I 0.95 20:33 SPICAM 50( -70) 219 33 6.8 7.9 6.8 6.3 6.8 strom y 1.50 01:10 AGILE -1575(-2359) 121 23 6.5 6.2 6.5 5.9 6.2 SDSS r' 1.29 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 50 10 9 255 (WSW) 976 clear none 17:00 49 5 5 263 (W) 962 clear none 18:00 52 7 14 228 (SW) 1054 clear none 19:00 47 4 9 223 (SW) 1059 clear none 20:00 44 0 9 248 (WSW) 1092 clear none 21:00 45 0 7 247 (WSW) 1161 clear none 22:00 45 1 7 258 (WSW) 1158 clear none 23:00 44 0 6 187 (S) 1087 clear none 00:00 44 3 14 178 (S) 1270 clear none 01:00 44 4 21 198 (SSW) 1407 clear none 02:00 44 6 24 191 (S) 1312 clear none 03:00 44 3 19 179 (S) 1322 clear none 04:00 44 6 26 180 (S) 1377 clear none 05:00 43 9 25 194 (SSW) 1627 clear none 06:00 43 9 26 195 (SSW) 1660 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