Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120612 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, June 12, 2012 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Ritchey A.Ritchey Echelle 20:00 23:30 G.Stringfellow G.Stringfellow ECHELLE 22:30 02:11 C.Blake C.Blake DIS 02:22 06:10 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW14/R 20:21 23:30 0 0 0 0 3.1 0.0 0 0 DD02/R 23:30 02:10 0 0 0 0 2.4 0.3 0 0 PU01/R 02:10 05:46 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.6 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky 02:58:23 APO.Jack-Obs1.ecam 15 ecamera f text="could not read new image file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/export/images/forTron/guider/gimg8057.fits'" 02:58:23 CmdDone: client-2900 15 ecamera expose exptime=5.0 bin=1,1 offset=0,0 size=512,512 filename=/export/images/ecam/UT120613/e0004.fits 02:58:24 APO.Jack-Obs1 130 ecam i camFile="None" 02:58:24 APO.Jack-Obs1 130 ecam f text="\"could not read new image file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/export/images/forTron/guider/gimg8057.fits'\"" 02:59:08 APO.Jack-Obs1.ecam 17 ecamera f text="could not read new image file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/export/images/forTron/guider/gimg8057.fits'" had to restart the ecamera Next image did not show stars (7th mag) 03:03:33 APO.Jack-Obs1.ecam 8 ecamera f text="could not read new image file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/export/images/forTron/guider/gimg8060.fits'" 03:03:33 CmdDone: client-2913 8 ecamera expose exptime=5.0 bin=1,1 offset=0,0 size=512,512 filename=/export/images/ecam/UT120613/e0009.fits 03:03:33 APO.Jack-Obs1 143 ecam i camFile="None" 03:03:33 APO.Jack-Obs1 143 ecam f text="\"could not read new image file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/export/images/forTron/guider/gimg8060.fits'\"" did another hub startNubs and it seemed to fix the problem. ecam failed around 04:46 (see e0665 timestamp for last exposure prior to failure). The exposure failed during boresight guiding. Restarting the Nubs quickly fixed the problem. No further ecam failures for the remainder of the night No problems with TSPEC (or guiding) tonight. DIS left mounted as my observer was doing in dome cals at the end of night. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:08 ECHELLE 437( -288) -32 69 18.9 20.0 20.1 19.6 18.8 ND2 0.83 22:47 ECHELLE 347( -476) 131 51 16.8 17.9 18.3 17.6 17.2 ND3 2.00 23:35 TSPEC 347( 767) 155 43 18.4 17.5 17.9 17.4 17.4 Ks 1.70 01:28 ECHELLE 411( -445) 4 53 18.2 17.3 17.8 17.3 17.5 ND1 0.87 02:36 dis-slit 347( 509) 215 79 17.6 16.9 17.5 16.8 16.9 -- 1.08 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 69 37 13 189 (S) 2059 ptly cldy none 17:00 73 37 17 237 (WSW) 1798 ptly cldy none 18:00 69 39 16 182 (S) 1883 ptly cldy none 19:00 70 34 13 209 (SSW) 1837 clear none 20:00 67 33 17 204 (SSW) 1871 clear none 21:00 66 34 12 190 (S) 1799 clear none 22:00 66 31 12 202 (SSW) 1646 clear none 23:00 66 27 9 182 (S) 1624 clear none 00:00 64 32 11 182 (S) 1925 clear none 01:00 65 30 11 214 (SW) 1888 clear none 02:00 64 26 9 254 (WSW) 1860 clear none 03:00 64 24 7 241 (WSW) 1300 clear none 04:00 63 25 3 216 (SW) 1315 clear none 05:00 63 22 5 281 (W) 1012 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