Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:39:49 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110416 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, April 16, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Kaiser M.Kaiser, M.Morris ECHELLE/TSPEC 19:20 01:05 M.McElwain M.McElwain Echelle 01:07 06:18 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- JH03/O 19:42 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.5 0 0 PU03/R 01:10 06:23 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.2 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Huehnerhoff Clear night with good seeing and no problems. M.Kaiser and M.Morris onsite and completed training. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:44 TSPEC 404( 582) 42 68 10.5 13.8 11.8 12.5 12.2 -- 0.96 21:31 ECHELLE 204( -999) -14 71 11.3 11.2 11.2 10.4 10.9 ND2 0.70 00:43 TSPEC 154( 172) 76 69 10.8 10.6 10.8 10.1 10.4 -- 1.13 01:10 ECHELLE 179(-1064) 66 75 10.6 10.4 10.6 9.8 10.1 ND1 1.14 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 61 16 13 258 (WSW) 4337 clear none 17:00 59 17 10 241 (WSW) 3834 clear none 18:00 60 15 11 244 (WSW) 4112 clear none 19:00 55 12 10 201 (SSW) 4501 clear none 20:00 52 8 12 198 (SSW) 5179 clear none 21:00 52 8 12 232 (SW) 4792 clear none 22:00 53 9 14 227 (SW) 4506 clear none 23:00 53 9 16 218 (SW) 4688 clear none 00:00 51 8 12 247 (WSW) 4546 clear none 01:00 50 7 12 260 (W) 4091 clear none 02:00 51 8 9 267 (W) 4174 clear none 03:00 51 9 10 270 (W) 3503 clear none 04:00 51 9 16 297 (WNW) 2717 clear none 05:00 49 6 12 312 (NW) 3808 clear none 06:00 50 9 10 315 (NW) 3176 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: 1.8.7