Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 06:56:06 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110407 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, April 07, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 19:06 20:20 A.Kowalski A.Kowalski DIS 20:24 01:04 P.Szkody A.Mukadam Agile 01:10 06:30 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B -------------------------------------------------------------------- DD01/O 19:36 20:21 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.8 0 0 UW01/R 20:21 01:10 0 0 0 0 1.6 3.3 0 0 UW02/R 01:10 06:34 0 0 0 0 5.4 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Huehnerhoff Light clouds at start of night clearing after midnight. Good seeing for much of the night greatly improving to sub-arcsecond after 0200MT. Agile worked great. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:30 APOLLO 250( 693) 26 48 7.5 8.6 8.3 8.0 7.8 -- 1.50 20:31 dis-slit 298( -147) 122 63 7.0 7.2 7.3 6.9 6.8 -- 1.22 01:18 AGILE -1450(-2271) 30 25 5.2 5.5 5.7 5.1 5.3 BG40 1.50 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 51 24 19 260 (W) 1888 ptly cldy none 17:00 50 22 22 245 (WSW) 2206 ptly cldy none 18:00 49 22 22 249 (WSW) 1963 mstly clr none 19:00 47 21 23 255 (WSW) 1258 mstly clr none 20:00 45 21 27 251 (WSW) mstly clr none 21:00 44 21 19 259 (W) mstly clr none 22:00 44 21 14 257 (WSW) mstly clr none 23:00 44 21 16 271 (W) mstly clr none 00:00 44 21 16 255 (WSW) clear none 01:00 43 21 17 265 (W) clear none 02:00 41 21 11 255 (WSW) clear none 03:00 40 21 16 265 (W) clear none 04:00 40 24 18 252 (WSW) clear none 05:00 39 24 19 250 (WSW) clear none 06:00 39 25 16 253 (WSW) 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