Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120816 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:34:22 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, August 16, 2012 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- K.Hamm K.Hamm DIS --:-- --:-- A.Mortazavi A.Mortazavi DIS --:-- --:-- INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UV07/R 19:55 01:10 5.2 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 JH03/R 01:10 06:20 5.2 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Shelden Bradley VERY cloudy and rainy and humid night. Surrounded by lightning! Closed all night. The bat has moved up to the observing level. I tried to let it out the catwalk door, but it was too freaked out to notice. Poor thing. :( ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 65 48 5 86 (E) 710 cloudy rain 17:00 62 48 12 59 (ENE) 751 cloudy none 18:00 62 50 11 75 (ENE) 779 cloudy none 19:00 61 51 12 82 (E) 795 cloudy none 20:00 61 49 17 78 (ENE) 790 cloudy none 21:00 60 50 17 73 (ENE) 1061 cloudy rain 22:00 59 51 17 79 (E) 3889 cloudy none 23:00 58 51 5 174 (S) 3541 cloudy humid 00:00 55 50 5 154 (SSE) 2868 cloudy humid 01:00 53 52 3 270 (W) 3675 cloudy humid 02:00 52 52 2 85 (E) 2817 cloudy humid 03:00 52 51 6 288 (WNW) 2683 cloudy humid 04:00 52 50 2 337 (NNW) 1609 cloudy humid 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