From: Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110809 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:33:03 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, August 09, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- B.Woodgate B.Woodgate,C.Grady, GFP 20:40 01:05 G.Hilton,J.Brubeck M.Klaene R.McMillan SH,NA2gdr 01:10 05:00 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN03/R 20:03 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.1 0 0 EN01/R 01:10 06:15 0 0 0 0 2.9 2.2 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Partly cloudy with moderate seeing all night. We got a GFP instrument block and confirmed that the optics are more stable than in June. Second half I adjusted collimation and took a pointing model. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21:30 GFP 250( 679) 28 54 18.6 19.0 19.3 18.9 18.8 Halpha 1.00 00:52 GFP 175( 563) -126 63 18.3 18.4 18.8 18.1 17.9 Halpha 0.92 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 19 104 (ESE) 617 ptly cldy none 17:00 63 42 23 122 (ESE) 479 ptly cldy none 18:00 63 40 19 125 (SE) 629 ptly cldy none 19:00 66 38 10 118 (ESE) 642 ptly cldy none 20:00 66 36 14 136 (SE) 500 ptly cldy none 21:00 67 37 11 173 (S) 646 ptly cldy none 22:00 67 38 12 181 (S) 736 ptly cldy none 23:00 67 39 14 165 (SSE) 996 ptly cldy none 00:00 66 40 14 126 (SE) 2022 ptly cldy none 01:00 65 41 18 136 (SE) 4669 ptly cldy none 02:00 62 43 3 220 (SW) 2560 ptly cldy none 03:00 63 44 7 184 (S) 1638 ptly cldy none 04:00 64 41 7 220 (SW) 1643 ptly cldy none 05:00 64 40 7 262 (W) 949 ptly cldy 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