Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120621 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:23:09 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, June 21, 2012 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- D.York D.York DIS 19:50 01:08 G.Stringfellow G.Stringfellow ECHELLE --:-- --:-- B.Balick B.Balick, R.Corradi DIS 04:25 05:05 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UC01/R 20:24 01:10 0 0 0 0 3.3 1.5 0 0 DD02/R 01:10 02:10 1.0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 UW02/R 02:10 05:47 3.0 0 0 0 0.6 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Shelden Closed for nasty looking storm clouds at 01:10. Seeing was awful all during first half. Opened for a short while just before morning twilight, but conditions quickly got bad again. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:53 ECHELLE 157( -684) -44 59 16.0 17.7 18.4 16.7 16.0 Clear 2.60 04:03 dis-slit 438( 536) -3 20 15.5 14.3 14.7 14.4 14.6 -- 1.20 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 70 46 11 89 (E) 2240 mstly clr none 17:00 69 46 18 87 (E) 2456 mstly clr none 18:00 65 45 15 81 (E) 2473 clear none 19:00 64 46 11 109 (ESE) 2411 clear none 20:00 63 46 10 85 (E) 2515 clear none 21:00 61 46 14 83 (E) 2483 clear none 22:00 59 47 17 95 (E) 2393 clear none 23:00 57 47 15 87 (E) 2295 clear none 00:00 57 45 13 82 (E) 2205 clear none 01:00 58 46 11 8 (N) 2359 cloudy none 02:00 59 45 19 56 (NE) 2746 cloudy none 03:00 58 44 12 80 (E) 3307 mstly cldy none 04:00 59 44 9 106 (ESE) 3223 mstly cldy none 05:00 59 42 12 109 (ESE) 2574 cloudy 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