Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 11:12:51 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110516 From: "Gabrelle Saurage" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, May 16, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Borish J.Borish TSPEC 20:14 00:20 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 00:24 01:06 A.Brown A.Brown Echelle 01:09 05:20 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UV02/R 20:05 00:25 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.3 0 0 DD01/R 00:25 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.8 0 0 CU06/R 01:10 05:54 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.7 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: G.Saurage Clear skies... decent seeing. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:22 TSPEC 350( 596) 281 47 12.7 14.8 13.6 13.8 13.5 1.08 01:17 ECHELLE 206(-1027) 130 47 10.3 10.1 10.3 9.7 9.8 ND2 1.46 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 62 20 21 254 (WSW) 1896 clear none 17:00 63 21 28 209 (SSW) 1941 clear none 18:00 61 20 24 249 (WSW) 1904 clear none 19:00 59 18 28 217 (SW) 2069 clear none 20:00 54 12 18 228 (SW) 2250 clear none 21:00 55 12 22 204 (SSW) 2647 clear none 22:00 54 12 17 207 (SSW) 2546 clear none 23:00 52 10 12 258 (WSW) 2415 clear none 00:00 52 9 20 248 (WSW) 1678 clear none 01:00 50 9 20 268 (W) 1835 clear none 02:00 49 9 22 265 (W) 1911 clear none 03:00 47 11 19 256 (WSW) 2102 clear none 04:00 47 13 19 262 (W) 2235 clear none 05:00 46 14 22 269 (W) 2183 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