Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120304 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 13:14:39 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, March 04, 2012 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- W.Ketzeback J.Dembicky ECHELLE 18:12 19:07 G.Wolf-Chase M.Smutko, K.Arvidsson NIC-FPS 19:07 00:07 G.Bakos J.Hartman ECHELLE 00:07 06:00 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM09/W 18:12 19:12 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 UC06/R 19:12 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.0 0 0 PU02/R 00:10 06:17 0 0 0 0 1.9 4.2 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky No problems tonight. Tertiary pointed at NA2 at the end of the night. I plugged the heater extension cord in for SPIcam for Joe this morning. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:24 ECHELLE 608( -812) -13 66 6.1 6.5 6.3 6.3 5.9 ND3 1.00 19:19 NICFPS 402( 488) 1 79 5.2 5.7 5.8 5.4 4.9 H2-2.12 0.60 19:22 NA2gdr -2741(40259) -2 79 5.3 5.6 5.8 5.4 4.9 R 0.88 00:14 ECHELLE 483(-1083) -97 51 4.5 3.3 3.9 3.4 3.7 ND3 1.10 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 44 11 14 41 (NE) 2367 clear none 17:00 45 12 10 359 (N) 2309 clear none 18:00 44 10 11 83 (E) 2907 clear none 19:00 42 7 8 90 (E) 1894 clear none 20:00 40 7 10 88 (E) 2051 clear none 21:00 40 7 11 87 (E) 2359 clear none 22:00 40 7 13 83 (E) 2275 clear none 23:00 38 8 8 88 (E) 2439 clear none 00:00 40 8 6 112 (ESE) 2448 clear none 01:00 40 7 4 123 (ESE) 2619 clear none 02:00 40 7 4 186 (S) 2591 clear none 03:00 40 7 4 169 (S) 2613 clear none 04:00 38 6 5 178 (S) 2862 clear none 05:00 37 7 6 153 (SSE) 2829 clear none 06:00 38 6 4 118 (ESE) 2921 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