Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120109 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:42:36 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, January 09, 2012 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Ritchey G.Wallerstein Echelle 19:40 23:00 M.Kasliwal M.Kasliwal, Y.Cao DIS 23:00 23:50 S.Hawley K.Covey TSPEC/Echelle 00:00 03:55 G.Arney G.Arney TSPEC 03:55 06:55 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW13/R 17:23 23:00 0.6 0 0 0 0 2,7 0 0 PU02/R/D 23:00 00:10 0 0 0 0 0 1.2 0 0 UW04/R 00:10 03:58 0 0 0 0.3 0.0 3.5 0 0 UW05/R 03:58 06:58 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky ToO program tonight @ 23:00 Humidity kept us closed until 19:40 Echelle slitviewer computer crashed. Power cycled, then it didn't seem to want to accept commands. followed wiki for further rebooting. Still didn't work. I noticed the X on the bottom of the slitview window, clicked it to abort command, and it was back. TSPEC Slew aborted on itself. 10:57:05 .tcc.0 0 tcc F Modu="mov_TrapSlew"; Text="Telescope is moving too fast. Stop the telescope, then try your slew again." 10:57:05 CmdDone: .tcc 0 tcc 10:57:05 CmdStarted: .tcc 0 tcc 10:57:05 .tcc.0 0 tcc F Modu="mov_TrapSlew"; Text="Telescope is moving too fast. Stop the telescope, then try your slew again." 10:57:05 CmdDone: .tcc 0 tcc 10:57:05 UW05.Giada 13 tcc W Text="cannot slew one ore more critical axes"; AxisNoSlew="FFT"; AxisErrCode="OK","OK","CannotCompute" 10:57:05 CmdStarted: .tcc 0 tcc 10:57:05 .tcc.0 0 tcc I SecCmdMount=-1041831.,813928.,-312498.,11762.,-2411.; CmdDTime=20.4 10:57:05 UW05.Giada 13 tcc F SlewEnd MIrror covers refused to close automatically this morning. Worked fine in manual mode to close. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UW04 E I/H 10:40 11:00 Slitty froze, power cycled and still unresponsive. Killed Echelle-ts line 1, still not not responsive. Noticed X in Slitview window, to cancel executing command, that brought it back. Updated wiki ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:38 ECHELLE 468(-1466) 123 62 -6.2 -3.7 -2.4 -3.7 -5.2 ND3 1.70 00:12 dis-slit 438( -508) 232 71 -3.9 -4.8 -4.3 -4.5 -4.3 -- 1.90 01:10 TSPEC 525( -174) -71 47 -3.5 -4.3 -3.9 -4.0 -3.6 Ks 1.40 03:16 ECHELLE 531(-1390) -68 41 -3.0 -3.9 -3.5 -3.7 -3.5 ND1 1.80 04:42 TSPEC 533( -173) -109 60 -3.8 -4.1 -3.7 -4.0 -4.2 Ks 1.30 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 23 22 6 8 (N) 1519 mstly cldy humid 17:00 23 22 4 28 (NNE) 1806 ptly cldy humid 18:00 22 21 15 17 (NNE) 2024 clear humid 19:00 21 19 12 5 (N) 1377 clear humid 20:00 22 14 20 360 (N) 566 clear none 21:00 22 13 21 17 (NNE) 557 clear none 22:00 24 4 28 20 (NNE) 452 clear none 23:00 26 -7 18 20 (NNE) 331 clear none 00:00 26 5 28 31 (NNE) 500 clear none 01:00 26 15 24 52 (NE) 185 clear none 02:00 25 11 18 32 (NNE) 239 clear none 03:00 25 11 15 15 (NNE) 281 ptly cldy none 04:00 25 7 20 27 (NNE) 301 mstly clr none 05:00 27 10 22 39 (NE) 255 clear none 06:00 27 11 22 20 (NNE) 226 clear 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: 2.15.0 Current TUI version: 1.9.4