Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 11:34:20 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120807 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, August 07, 2012 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Klaene R.McMillan -- --:-- --:-- INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN02/R 20:04 01:10 2.9 2.2 0 0 2.9 2.2 0 0 EN02/R 01:10 06:14 0 5.1 0 0 0.0 5.1 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Cloudy and/or threat of rain all night. I was able to do some further analysis of last night's work on echelle pointing, but wasn't able to test the conclusions I came up with. ------- 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 64 47 3 355 (N) 1591 mstly cldy rain 17:00 65 47 10 68 (ENE) 1696 mstly cldy none 18:00 64 47 17 62 (ENE) 1502 mstly cldy lt rain 19:00 66 43 12 79 (E) 1250 mstly cldy lt rain 20:00 66 43 14 73 (ENE) 1218 ptly cldy none 21:00 66 42 10 19 (NNE) 1142 ptly cldy none 22:00 65 43 5 5 (N) 988 ptly cldy none 23:00 65 42 2 227 (SW) 936 mstly cldy none 00:00 64 43 6 154 (SSE) 1399 mstly cldy none 01:00 63 43 2 182 (S) 1945 mstly cldy none 02:00 62 43 2 311 (NW) 1739 mstly cldy none 03:00 62 43 6 190 (S) 2072 cloudy none 04:00 61 43 8 167 (SSE) 2083 cloudy none 05:00 61 43 4 169 (S) 1987 cloudy lt rain 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