From: Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110613 Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:58:45 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, June 13, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- B.Woodgate B.Woodgate,C.Grady, GFP 21:00 23:30 M.McElwain,B.Daly,T.Norton W.Bhatti W.Bhatti SPICAM 01:30 05:35 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN02/R 20:21 01:10 0 1.7 0 0 0.0 3.1 0 0 JH01/R 01:10 05:46 0 0.3 0 0 1.0 3.3 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan We had medium clouds coming and going for much of the night, along with a pretty bad smoke spike that persuaded me to close for about two hours. When we were open, seeing was reasonably good and stable. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22:38 GFP 0( 405) 58 38 17.6 18.1 18.0 17.4 17.5 x Halpha 1.00 01:44 SPICAM 100( 477) 63 33 17.3 17.4 17.5 16.9 17.1 R 1.09 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 72 29 20 263 (W) 1601 ptly cldy none 17:00 71 28 17 265 (W) 1359 ptly cldy none 18:00 69 27 15 266 (W) 1317 ptly cldy none 19:00 71 29 21 252 (WSW) 1423 ptly cldy none 20:00 67 25 15 244 (WSW) 1323 ptly cldy none 21:00 66 25 13 259 (W) 1479 ptly cldy none 22:00 65 22 11 300 (WNW) 3505 ptly cldy dust 23:00 64 22 12 283 (WNW) 3867 ptly cldy dust 00:00 64 21 14 268 (W) 4265 ptly cldy none 01:00 64 21 14 306 (NW) 2836 ptly cldy dust 02:00 63 21 13 288 (WNW) 2185 ptly cldy none 03:00 62 20 11 283 (WNW) 1591 mstly clr none 04:00 62 20 18 296 (WNW) 1269 mstly clr none 05:00 60 20 14 290 (WNW) 931 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