From: Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110611 Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:49:13 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, June 11, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- B.Woodgate B.Woodgate,C.Grady, GFP 21:00 00:50 B.Daly,M.McElwain M.Kaiser M.Kaiser Echelle,Tspec 01:25 05:45 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN02/R 20:20 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.8 0 0 JH03/R 01:10 05:46 0 0 0 0 2.7 1.9 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan More GFP engineering during first half; we got some successful spectra and investigated focus offsets between some different observing modes. During second half the smoke got worse again, with a very large spike during morning twilight. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01:19 dis-slit 116( 30) 175 63 12.2 12.0 12.3 11.5 11.9 r 1.20 02:10 ECHELLE 129( -728) -27 24 16.8 16.3 16.6 16.2 16.2 0.90 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 73 32 24 232 (SW) 926 clear none 17:00 71 30 21 257 (WSW) 683 clear none 18:00 70 27 16 262 (W) 772 clear none 19:00 68 25 21 264 (W) 753 clear none 20:00 65 21 13 245 (WSW) 712 clear none 21:00 63 20 14 246 (WSW) 778 clear none 22:00 63 20 16 254 (WSW) 772 clear none 23:00 63 19 14 271 (W) 1317 clear none 00:00 62 18 11 275 (W) 2471 clear none 01:00 62 19 16 297 (WNW) 2249 clear none 02:00 62 19 11 282 (WNW) 2397 clear none 03:00 62 20 8 264 (W) 3208 clear smoke 04:00 61 18 9 232 (SW) 3438 clear smoke 05:00 61 19 9 206 (SSW) 3444 clear smoke 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