Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:10:35 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20121124 From: "Alysha Shugart" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, November 24, 2012 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 17:05 18:06 K.France A.Youngblood ECHELLE 18:07 23:05 J.Bally A.Youngblood TSpec 23:05 06:30 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW12/R 17:07 18:07 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 CU04/R 18:07 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 6.1 0 0 CU05/R 00:10 06:34 0 0 0 0 2.4 4.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Shugart Clear night. Variable seeing, but no problems. Did forget to record the focus for the echelle, CU04 shift. Seeing was between 0.8 and 1.5" for that run. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:01 APOLLO 500( 837) 61 60 4.7 6.5 6.0 6.4 4.8 530 1.20 00:03 TSPEC 437( 151) 47 39 4.0 3.6 4.1 3.8 4.0 -- 1.14 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 44 21 7 292 (WNW) 105 clear none 17:00 40 19 7 330 (NNW) 110 clear none 18:00 40 15 12 319 (NW) 97 clear none 19:00 39 13 11 329 (NNW) 90 clear none 20:00 40 11 8 346 (NNW) 84 clear none 21:00 40 9 5 341 (NNW) 79 clear none 22:00 38 19 9 308 (NW) 122 clear none 23:00 40 20 9 312 (NW) 102 clear none 00:00 39 22 10 325 (NW) 162 clear none 01:00 40 22 18 291 (WNW) 224 clear none 02:00 41 20 14 304 (NW) 177 clear none 03:00 40 21 14 323 (NW) 213 clear none 04:00 40 14 13 303 (WNW) 111 clear none 05:00 42 14 13 311 (NW) 140 clear none 06:00 42 15 14 320 (NW) 106 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