From: Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110913 Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:38:27 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, September 13, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Klaene R.McMillan Echelle,DIS 20:00 23:30 M.Klaene R.McMillan SH 00:00 01:10 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN01/R 19:21 01:10 0 0.5 0 0 0.2 5.1 0 0 EN01/R 01:10 06:38 0 5.5 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Partly cloudy with generally good seeing during first half. I was able to complete three high-priority engineering tasks but was not able to get a pointing model before weather turned bad during second half. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21:05 ECHELLE 341( -575) 65 41 15.0 15.7 15.7 15.2 14.8 ND3 1.10 22:16 dis-slit 237( 302) 79 75 14.6 15.1 15.2 14.8 14.2 - 1.00 22:58 dis-slit 209( 250) 56 84 14.6 14.6 14.8 14.3 14.1 - 0.98 23:59 ECHELLE 322( -700) 0 62 14.6 14.2 14.5 13.9 13.8 ND2 0.79 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 65 39 19 265 (W) 553 ptly cldy none 17:00 67 40 9 262 (W) 550 ptly cldy none 18:00 62 39 5 260 (W) 607 ptly cldy none 19:00 62 39 13 265 (W) 590 ptly cldy none 20:00 58 39 9 254 (WSW) 539 ptly cldy none 21:00 60 39 11 264 (W) 615 ptly cldy none 22:00 59 38 14 244 (WSW) 609 ptly cldy none 23:00 58 38 4 311 (NW) 562 ptly cldy none 00:00 58 37 7 314 (NW) 604 ptly cldy none 01:00 59 37 5 300 (WNW) 518 mstly cldy none 02:00 50 41 26 202 (SSW) 1551 cloudy rain 03:00 47 45 1 177 (S) 944 cloudy lt rain 04:00 52 40 6 89 (E) 404 cloudy none 05:00 57 38 8 266 (W) 176 cloudy lt rain 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: 1.9.2