Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:38:46 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110625 From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, June 25, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Perez A.Perez ECHELLE 20:10 01:04 W.Bhatti W.Bhatti SPICAM 01:07 05:35 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UV06/O 20:24 01:10 0 0 0 0 4.8 0.0 0 0 JH01/R 01:10 05:48 0 0 0 0 0.9 3.7 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Huehnerhoff Clear night with good seeing first half turning poor during second half. Ana Perez completed onsite training tonight. Trouble with echelle slitviewer failing to readout after first half hour of observations, the slitviewer computer was unresponsive. At 0250UT the echelle slitviewer computer was restarted. No problems the remainder of the night. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:32 ECHELLE 139( -336) 70 76 21.4 25.1 23.3 23.1 23.2 ND3 1.25 21:58 ECHELLE 265( -302) -139 45 21.9 22.7 22.4 21.6 21.9 ND1 0.89 01:11 SPICAM 212( 742) 60 36 20.7 20.4 20.7 19.9 20.2 MSSSO R 1.78 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 80 37 17 251 (WSW) 1120 clear none 17:00 78 36 14 263 (W) 1194 clear none 18:00 78 35 10 263 (W) 1206 clear none 19:00 79 35 10 268 (W) 1155 clear none 20:00 74 31 7 226 (SW) 1221 clear none 21:00 72 29 6 258 (WSW) 3383 clear none 22:00 72 28 9 243 (WSW) 1400 clear none 23:00 70 28 6 202 (SSW) 1426 clear none 00:00 70 28 7 286 (WNW) 1396 clear none 01:00 70 28 5 325 (NW) 1363 clear none 02:00 69 29 2 42 (NE) 1485 clear none 03:00 68 27 13 352 (N) 1309 clear none 04:00 67 27 5 12 (NNE) 1287 clear none 05:00 67 27 11 1 (N) 1383 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