From: Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110728 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, July 27, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Klaene R.McMillan NICFPS,SH 03:15 05:45 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN02/R 20:14 01:10 4.9 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 EN02/R 01:10 06:06 2.1 0 0 0 0.7 2.2 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Lots of rain first half and some sprinkles second half, but I was able to open long enough to get a NICFPS instrument block and some data with the new Shack-Hartmann instrument. The cloud cam was not working tonight. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03:26 NICFPS 299( 972) 14 51 17.9 16.9 17.2 16.9 17.1 J 0.62 04:13 SHACK 249( 967) -123 54 18.0 16.8 17.3 16.6 16.9 - 1.00 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 74 47 11 256 (WSW) 369 mstly cldy none 17:00 74 47 2 249 (WSW) 379 mstly cldy none 18:00 74 45 9 256 (WSW) 410 cloudy none 19:00 72 45 4 259 (W) 376 cloudy none 20:00 67 48 9 184 (S) 642 cloudy rain 21:00 61 48 7 267 (W) 534 cloudy lt rain 22:00 59 49 12 359 (N) 664 cloudy none 23:00 60 50 1 325 (NW) 677 cloudy lt rain 00:00 59 47 16 79 (E) 489 cloudy lt rain 01:00 61 47 15 81 (E) 383 cloudy lt rain 02:00 62 44 7 86 (E) 490 mstly cldy none 03:00 63 44 5 115 (ESE) 453 ptly cldy none 04:00 64 44 1 200 (SSW) 448 mstly clr none 05:00 64 45 1 281 (W) 366 mstly clr 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