Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120831 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 12:41:24 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, August 31, 2012 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Youngblood A.Youngblood TripleSpec 19:20 01:06 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 01:07 02:01 D.York S.Johnson Echelle 02:05 06:23 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- CU05/R 19:37 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.6 0 0 DD01/R 01:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 UC06/R 02:10 06:30 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.3 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Productive night with good seeing. :) ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:40 TSPEC 481( 1018) 64 57 16.2 20.2 19.7 20.6 16.7 -- 1.10 00:25 APOLLO 500( 1194) 2 57 13.6 13.4 14.0 13.5 13.4 -- 1.20 01:10 ECHELLE 386( -691) 164 74 13.4 13.2 13.7 13.3 13.3 ND2 1.02 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 71 35 11 242 (WSW) 1100 clear none 17:00 71 34 13 238 (WSW) 891 clear none 18:00 69 34 12 243 (WSW) 868 clear none 19:00 66 32 10 223 (SW) 998 clear none 20:00 60 30 13 78 (ENE) 837 clear none 21:00 58 29 12 87 (E) 1255 clear none 22:00 58 29 15 73 (ENE) 925 clear none 23:00 57 30 12 82 (E) 989 clear none 00:00 57 29 12 84 (E) 1083 clear none 01:00 57 29 15 81 (E) 962 clear none 02:00 57 31 12 80 (E) 1234 clear none 03:00 56 32 10 89 (E) 1250 clear none 04:00 56 32 8 92 (E) 1178 clear none 05:00 55 32 9 87 (E) 1257 clear none 06:00 55 33 7 93 (E) 1184 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