Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20121126 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:26:27 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, November 26, 2012 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Gladders M.Gladders, E.Wuyts NICFPS 16:55 00:10 G.Bakos X.Huang ECHELLE 00:10 07:20 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UC05/R 17:06 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 7.1 0 0 PU04/R 00:10 06:36 0 0 0 0 0.7 5.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky No problems tonight. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:53 NICFPS 450( 567) 19 85 4.0 6.3 5.4 6.2 4.3 J 0.60 18:58 NA2gdr -1559(41440) 7 85 3.8 6.1 5.3 5.9 4.1 clear 0.79 19:54 NICFPS 318( 307) -70 78 1.6 3.7 3.8 3.3 1.7 Ks 0.84 19:55 NA2gdr -1813(41186) -71 77 1.6 3.7 3.8 3.3 1.7 R 1.50 21:07 NICFPS 297( 161) 21 62 -0.2 1.2 1.5 0.8 -0.0 Ks 1.10 01:11 ECHELLE 455(-1124) -11 66 4.0 3.4 3.9 3.7 3.9 ND5 0.70 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 45 21 4 259 (W) 181 mstly clr none 17:00 41 19 1 276 (W) 201 mstly clr none 18:00 39 20 9 89 (E) 377 ptly cldy none 19:00 35 17 17 77 (ENE) 978 ptly cldy none 20:00 32 20 14 84 (E) 895 ptly cldy none 21:00 32 21 11 86 (E) 872 clear none 22:00 40 15 6 259 (W) 182 clear none 23:00 40 16 5 256 (WSW) 216 clear none 00:00 40 17 6 215 (SW) 248 clear none 01:00 37 18 6 225 (SW) 413 clear none 02:00 36 19 3 198 (SSW) 534 clear none 03:00 38 19 5 206 (SSW) 490 clear none 04:00 39 16 6 268 (W) 268 clear none 05:00 39 15 7 264 (W) 285 clear none 06:00 39 14 8 266 (W) 199 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