Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120329 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri Mar 30 13:09:45 UTC 2012 Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, March 29, 2012 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- W.Ketzeback A.Shelden TSPEC 19:30 20:30 G.Gyuk M.Solontoi, M.HammergrenSPICAM 20:49 01:09 P.Szkody A.Mukadam Agile 01:11 06:35 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- DD04/R 19:30 20:30 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 UC05/R 20:30 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.7 0 0 UW08/R 01:10 06:45 0 0 0 0 4.9 0.7 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Shelden Night was dusty, with excellent seeing. Very productive. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:36 TSPEC 430( 602) 236 63 10.4 13.1 13.1 12.6 11.0 -- 0.70 20:02 SPICAM 461( 434) 211 71 9.4 10.2 10.6 9.8 9.2 sdss u 0.74 20:04 NA2gdr 1870(31870) 212 71 9.8 10.2 10.6 9.8 9.2 Clear 0.87 21:55 SPICAM 461( 356) 292 73 9.0 8.8 9.3 8.8 8.7 sdss r 0.65 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 53 10 11 242 (WSW) 2502 clear none 17:00 56 11 6 266 (W) 2862 clear none 18:00 56 12 16 286 (WNW) 3010 clear dust 19:00 53 8 13 308 (NW) 3342 clear dust 20:00 51 6 9 258 (WSW) 3929 clear dust 21:00 50 4 11 263 (W) 4246 clear dust 22:00 49 4 15 273 (W) 4188 clear dust 23:00 48 4 14 266 (W) 4375 clear dust 00:00 47 3 11 271 (W) 4558 clear dust 01:00 47 3 10 267 (W) 4823 clear dust 02:00 47 3 8 293 (WNW) 5006 clear dust 03:00 46 2 8 309 (NW) 4999 clear dust 04:00 46 5 13 335 (NNW) 4315 clear dust 05:00 45 7 7 3 (N) 4312 clear dust 06:00 45 10 15 13 (NNE) 3949 clear dust 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