Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20121009 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:36:13 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, October 09, 2012 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- V.Kostov V.Kostov, Z.Tsvetanov DIS 18:40 01:04 D.Bizyaev D.Bizyaev TRIPLESPEC 01:19 06:23 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- JH01/R 18:45 01:10 0 0 0 0 6.4 0.0 0 0 NM06/R 01:10 06:56 0 0 0 0 0.8 5.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Night was clear and productive with decent seeing. No problems to report. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21:31 dis-slit 255( 168) 244 67 12.1 12.0 12.2 11.7 11.4 -- 1.11 23:33 ECHELLE 394( -737) 309 27 11.4 11.1 11.5 11.0 11.2 clear 0.94 01:43 TSPEC 462( 528) 250 50 11.4 10.8 11.2 11.2 11.0 -- 0.98 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 58 19 8 260 (W) 164 clear none 17:00 57 21 10 278 (W) 192 clear none 18:00 58 20 9 256 (WSW) 201 clear none 19:00 54 21 5 232 (SW) 226 clear none 20:00 54 22 8 226 (SW) 283 clear none 21:00 54 23 6 204 (SSW) 255 clear none 22:00 54 23 8 229 (SW) 307 clear none 23:00 53 23 7 184 (S) 275 clear none 00:00 50 23 1 145 (SE) 302 clear none 01:00 50 21 1 158 (SSE) 260 clear none 02:00 53 22 6 253 (WSW) 300 clear none 03:00 52 22 5 256 (WSW) 300 clear none 04:00 53 21 7 200 (SSW) 220 clear none 05:00 53 20 5 202 (SSW) 261 clear none 06:00 52 20 7 235 (SW) 265 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: 1.9.5