Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20130130 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:44:07 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, January 30, 2013 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Kaiser M.Morris TSPEC 17:38 06:25 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- JH02/R 17:43 06:50 0 0 0 0 3.5 9.6 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Night was clear and productive. Seeing started out decent, but got pretty bad in the second half when the wind climbed. We stayed open the whole night, and pushed through the wind. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:26 TSPEC 638( -176) 16 85 -6.9 -6.1 -6.2 -5.8 -7.1 -- 1.00 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 19 0 9 330 (NNW) 127 clear none 17:00 20 0 6 20 (NNE) 107 clear none 18:00 19 0 3 346 (NNW) 112 clear none 19:00 21 3 9 294 (WNW) 114 clear none 20:00 21 5 18 347 (NNW) 76 clear none 21:00 22 7 9 47 (NE) 93 clear none 22:00 22 7 19 14 (NNE) 94 clear none 23:00 23 7 20 42 (NE) 74 clear none 00:00 24 9 31 27 (NNE) 68 clear none 01:00 25 9 18 27 (NNE) 20 clear none 02:00 24 11 21 12 (NNE) 54 clear none 03:00 23 10 18 9 (N) 48 clear none 04:00 23 9 21 23 (NNE) 57 clear none 05:00 23 9 27 3 (N) 69 clear none 06:00 24 11 22 13 (NNE) 83 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: 2.0.0