Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 06:02:46 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110520 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, May 20, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Klaene J.Huehnerhoff Eyepiece/DIS 19:45 22:50 AGILE 23:50 05:10 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN01/O 20:07 05:52 0 1.0 0 0 3.2 5.6 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Huehnerhoff Eyepiece on most of first half for observatory viewing. Thick clouds rolled in around 2200MT with radar returns near site. Close for an hour while the clouds and radar passed. Photometric for much of second half. AGILE instrument block taken and implemented. Pointing model complete and implemented. DIS throughput measurements taken for multiple targets. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22:50 EYEPIECE -700( -933) -22 75 6.6 6.6 6.8 6.5 6.4 -- 2.50 00:14 AGILE -1525(-2382) 11 81 5.4 6.0 5.9 5.6 5.5 SDSS r' 1.16 03:03 dis-slit 280( -320) 192 62 4.0 4.0 4.2 3.8 3.8 -- 1.33 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 49 17 23 295 (WNW) 809 mstly clr none 17:00 49 18 16 282 (WNW) 1033 mstly clr none 18:00 50 20 17 256 (WSW) 973 mstly clr none 19:00 49 19 13 270 (W) 918 mstly clr none 20:00 46 18 12 254 (WSW) 871 mstly clr none 21:00 44 18 20 244 (WSW) 1023 mstly cldy none 22:00 44 19 18 252 (WSW) 827 cloudy none 23:00 44 20 17 267 (W) 1259 cloudy none 00:00 43 20 14 268 (W) 1334 clear none 01:00 41 23 13 331 (NNW) 3488 clear none 02:00 40 27 9 291 (WNW) 1128 clear none 03:00 39 27 18 314 (NW) 356 clear none 04:00 38 27 6 338 (NNW) 507 clear none 05:00 39 26 6 349 (N) 346 clear none 06:00 38 26 13 8 (N) 321 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