Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120619 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:15:46 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, June 19, 2012 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Hughes J.Hughes SPIcam 19:35 00:12 G.Stringfellow G.Stringfellow ECHELLE 00:14 01:10 B.Balick. B.Balick, R.Corradi DIS 01:24 04:44 G.Wallerstein G.Wallerstein ECHELLE 04:46 05:50 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 3.7 0.1 0 0 DD02/R 00:10 01:10 0 0 0 0 1.0 0.0 0 0 UW02/R 01:10 04:47 0 0 0 0 3.6 0.0 0 0 UW16/R 04:47 05:47 0 0 0 0 1.0 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Shelden Night was productive with decent seeing. My second half observer was unable to see dis slitviewer images. He was able to download science images fine. I sent Fritz an email. He is on again tomorrow 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:11 SPICAM 234( 784) 40 50 19.9 21.2 21.2 20.2 20.0 MSSSO I 0.75 23:17 ECHELLE 320( -458) 22 38 17.7 18.4 18.9 18.0 17.8 ND2 1.28 00:34 dis-slit 264( 462) 53 67 18.5 17.6 17.9 17.1 17.1 -- 1.40 03:56 ECHELLE 431( -420) -106 76 19.2 17.7 18.5 17.4 18.2 ND3 0.80 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 78 32 18 262 (W) 1185 clear none 17:00 79 34 14 232 (SW) 1008 clear none 18:00 76 33 13 266 (W) 724 clear none 19:00 74 33 10 264 (W) 724 clear none 20:00 71 27 3 245 (WSW) 699 clear none 21:00 68 24 6 256 (WSW) 615 clear none 22:00 67 22 14 212 (SSW) 1032 clear none 23:00 67 23 11 244 (WSW) 926 clear none 00:00 66 22 7 269 (W) 861 clear none 01:00 63 20 3 257 (WSW) 866 clear none 02:00 65 21 6 342 (NNW) 1022 clear none 03:00 64 21 2 340 (NNW) 940 clear none 04:00 68 24 4 329 (NNW) 985 clear none 05:00 67 24 3 352 (N) 962 clear none 06:00 65 22 8 8 (N) 1020 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