Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20131016 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:59:28 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, October 16, 2013 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Klaene J.Dembicky, R.McMillan X 18:37 07:01 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN01/O 18:37 07:01 0 0 0 0 1.1 11.3 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Engineering tasks completed - Zero'ed NA2 rotator - Reset Alt, Az, NA2, Agile controllers - Pointing model (Biggrid), implemented - Echelle inter-order light - 20 min darks for DIS, Echelle, SPIcam (I actually took those last night) - Throughput - DIS slitviewer vs spectrograph focus - Shack Hartmann, including multiple alt sweep - Changed DIS pinhole slit to 5.0 arc sec slit, new slit masks created @ -45 rot - Adjusted bore sight/sweet spot for DIS slitviewer to better match the 1.5/2.0 & 5.0 slit (0.9 is a touch high but both close enough) - SPIcam limiting magnitude measurements /export/images/Q4APO/UT131017/spicam/ Filename Filter exptime Field: PG0231+051 PG0231_051_g_10s.0002 SDSS g 10s PG0231_051_g_300s.0003 SDSS g 300s (FITS comment wrong) PG0231_051_r_7s.0006 SDSS r 7s PG0231_051_r_300s.0007 SDSS r 300s PG0231_051_i_10s.0009 SDSS i 10s PG0231_051_i_300s.0010 SDSS i 300s PG0231_051_z_45s.0012 SDSS z 45s PG0231_051_z_300s.0013 SDSS z 300s Field: RU 149 RU149_g_13s.0015 SDSS g 13s RU149_g_10s.0016 SDSS g 10s RU149_g_5s.0017 SDSS g 5s RU149_g_300s.0018 SDSS g 300s RU149_r_5s.0020 SDSS r 5s RU149_r_300s.0021 SDSS r 300s RU149_i_7s.0023 SDSS i 7s RU149_i_300s.0024 SDSS i 300s RU149_z_20s.0026 SDSS z 20s RU149_z_20s.0027 SDSS z 20s RU149_z_300s.0028 SDSS z 300s Field: RU 152 RU152_g_7s.0030 SDSS g 7s RU152_g_300s.0031 SDSS g 300s RU152_r_5s.0033 SDSS r 5s RU152_r_300s.0034 SDSS r 300s refocused RU152_i_3s.0039 SDSS i 3s RU152_i_300s.0040 SDSS i 300s RU152_z_8s.0043 SDSS z 8s RU152_z_300s.0044 SDSS z 300s biases and flats taken at end of night. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:20 GUIDER 474( 656) -50 45 5.6 7.0 7.2 6.9 5.5 R+ND2 0.74 20:13 GUIDER 595( 737) -63 35 5.7 5.9 6.3 5.8 5.5 R+ND2 0.94 23:17 dcamera 595( 538) 135 33 5.9 4.9 5.4 4.9 4.8 -- 1.40 23:19 NA2gdr 2892(24892) 135 33 5.8 4.9 5.4 4.9 4.9 R 1.38 23:53 dcamera 576( 488) 265 55 5.7 5.0 5.3 4.9 5.2 -- 1.10 00:42 SHACK 684( 1153) 76 51 5.3 5.0 5.5 5.2 4.9 -- 1.00 03:37 SPIcam 519( 531) -47 54 4.1 3.9 4.3 4.0 3.9 SDSS g 0.69 03:38 NA2gdr 67(30067) -47 53 4.0 3.9 4.3 4.0 3.8 R 0.84 05:29 SPIcam 615( 610) 33 50 4.8 3.5 4.0 3.5 4.1 SDSS i 0.65 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 45 21 20 288 (WNW) 580 clear none 17:00 46 22 17 279 (W) 542 clear none 18:00 44 21 14 314 (NW) 527 clear none 19:00 42 21 15 305 (NW) 563 clear none 20:00 42 21 15 298 (WNW) 618 clear none 21:00 42 21 10 275 (W) 616 clear none 22:00 42 22 11 266 (W) 600 clear none 23:00 42 17 11 264 (W) 567 clear none 00:00 42 15 8 267 (W) 542 clear none 01:00 41 12 11 268 (W) 582 clear none 02:00 41 16 9 304 (NW) 520 clear none 03:00 40 21 8 301 (WNW) 587 clear none 04:00 39 25 5 257 (WSW) 600 clear none 05:00 39 19 10 245 (WSW) 585 clear none 06:00 40 15 15 240 (WSW) 566 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: 2.1.0