Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 12:40:56 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120407 From: "Gabrelle Saurage" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, April 07, 2012 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- W.Ketzeback G.Saurage ECHELLE/TSPEC --:-- --:-- T.X.Thuan, Y.I.Izotov DIS --:-- --:-- H.Weaver H.Weaver SPICAM 01:30 06:30 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- DD03/R 19:37 20:37 1.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 UV05/R 20:37 01:10 0.3 4.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 JH06/R 01:10 06:33 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.4 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: G.Saurage Clouds and dust all first half. Open second half with poor seeing. Trouble with gcam at first, had to restart to get it to take exposures and move the stage. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02:23 SPICAM -51( -347) -40 39 5.4 4.3 5.8 4.3 4.6 R 2.41 03:19 SPICAM 147( -140) -78 44 5.6 4.7 5.7 4.7 4.9 R 1.24 04:14 SPICAM 300( 48) -48 38 7.1 5.2 5.8 5.6 6.3 R 1.70 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 56 16 10 222 (SW) 2536 cloudy none 17:00 56 12 13 246 (WSW) 4548 cloudy none 18:00 53 11 1 204 (SSW) 3499 cloudy none 19:00 47 15 12 93 (E) 6550 cloudy dust 20:00 45 15 13 90 (E) 7908 cloudy dust 21:00 43 14 24 76 (ENE) 9808 cloudy dust 22:00 41 15 20 70 (ENE) 10894 cloudy dust 23:00 40 21 22 80 (E) 7713 cloudy dust 00:00 38 25 24 72 (ENE) 4590 ptly cldy none 01:00 36 25 19 74 (ENE) 3965 ptly cldy none 02:00 37 24 12 86 (E) 4651 ptly cldy none 03:00 41 23 8 94 (E) 4460 ptly cldy none 04:00 42 22 11 136 (SE) 3680 ptly cldy none 05:00 45 24 16 140 (SE) 4061 ptly cldy none 06:00 44 24 11 159 (SSE) 4513 ptly cldy 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