Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120111 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, January 11, 2012 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- W.Bhatti W.Bhatti SPIcam 17:45 23:33 J.Holtzman J.Holtzman, D.FeuilletECHELLE 23:45 06:42 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- JH01/R 17:25 00:10 0 0 0 0 2.6 4.1 0 0 NM06/R 00:10 06:58 0 0 0 0 0.0 6.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Clouds to start the night. Made focus a bit difficult until got a little darker during twilight. Checked pointing with echelle tonight and YTilt change was -285, this negated most of the offset (+400 YTilt) that I made last night. ecam stopped guiding in the middle of an exposure. No time loss, just needed to be restarted. Failure occured at 11:17:32. Mirror covers again refused to close in auto mode this morning @ 13:48:37. Temps got down to about -3.5C or so and Humidity 1u per 0.1 cubic feet. TELESCOPE STATUS Telescope drives operational. Current TCC version: 2.15.0 Current TUI version: 1.9.4