Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:46:17 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120618 From: "Gabrelle Saurage" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, June 18, 2012 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Hughes J.Hughes SPIcam 20:55 00:58 G.Stringfellow G.Stringfellow ECHELLE 01:01 01:07 V.Kostov V.Kostov DIS, Echelle 01:18 06:00 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW13/R 20:23 00:10 0 0 0 0 3.8 0.0 0 0 CU06/R 00:10 01:10 0 0 0 0 1.0 0.0 0 0 JH07/R 01:10 05:47 0 0 0 0 4.6 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: G.Saurage Clear skies. Mediocre seeing. Productive. Last 2 days GFP seems to be holding for about 11.5 hrs before the current triggers the temp alarms. Maybe just because ambient temps have been warm. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:59 SPICAM 313( 955) 44 48 20.9 23.0 22.2 22.6 21.2 R 1.03 23:07 ECHELLE 301( -454) 112 49 18.2 19.2 19.5 18.7 18.1 ND3 1.41 00:25 dis-slit 333( 592) 260 61 19.3 18.7 19.1 18.4 18.9 1.27 01:49 ECHELLE 327( -462) 2 42 19.8 18.3 18.7 17.9 18.4 ND2 1.56 03:06 dis-slit 383( 650) -142 64 20.3 18.9 19.5 18.9 18.8 1.07 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 81 33 16 240 (WSW) 1411 clear none 17:00 78 32 7 260 (W) 1245 clear none 18:00 74 31 12 267 (W) 1298 clear none 19:00 76 33 14 245 (WSW) 1351 clear none 20:00 71 28 6 257 (WSW) 1426 clear none 21:00 69 26 6 213 (SSW) 1322 clear none 22:00 67 25 9 212 (SSW) 1403 clear none 23:00 68 24 8 218 (SW) 1354 clear none 00:00 65 22 4 250 (WSW) 1341 clear none 01:00 67 24 5 256 (WSW) 1331 clear none 02:00 67 24 1 241 (WSW) 1303 clear none 03:00 69 25 7 226 (SW) 1193 clear none 04:00 68 24 6 203 (SSW) 1246 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