Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:25:09 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110921 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, September 21, 2011 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Gauthier J.Gauthier DIS 21:05 22:10 E.Levesque E.Levesque DIS 04:50 06:00 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UC01/R 19:10 01:10 5.0 0 0 0 1.0 0.0 0 0 CU05/R 01:10 06:43 0.3 4.1 0 0 0 1.1 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A. Shelden J. Dembicky Had Jon reboot the hub this afternoon. We couldn't login to TUI. More obs spec training for Alaina. Most of night was lost to thunderstorms and heavy clouds except for one hour in the evening and one hour in the morning. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21:18 dis-slit 99( 156) 32 53 12.3 14.6 15.1 14.5 12.6 -- 1.60 21:22 NA2gdr 409(22409) 31 54 12.4 14.3 14.8 14.1 12.6 clear 1.20 04:57 dis-slit 124( 113) -56 24 11.6 12.3 13.3 12.4 11.8 -- 1.70 Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 66 35 8 236 (SW) 445 clear none 17:00 70 37 13 226 (SW) 352 clear none 18:00 63 32 7 244 (WSW) 440 mstly cldy none 19:00 57 32 7 218 (SW) 487 mstly cldy none 20:00 57 35 14 127 (SE) 676 mstly cldy none 21:00 54 38 21 138 (SE) 887 mstly clr none 22:00 55 37 18 145 (SE) 819 mstly cldy none 23:00 53 37 11 189 (S) 706 cloudy none 00:00 55 35 12 180 (S) 805 cloudy lt rain 01:00 55 32 6 182 (S) 690 cloudy none 02:00 54 35 3 209 (SSW) 668 cloudy none 03:00 55 34 8 184 (S) 585 cloudy none 04:00 55 34 6 188 (S) 608 cloudy none 05:00 53 35 12 183 (S) 762 ptly cldy none 06:00 51 36 9 189 (S) 719 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: 1.9.2