Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20131022 From: pgaulme@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:37:55 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, October 22, 2013 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- S.Ballard S.Ballard TSPEC 18:39 01:02 Z.Tsvetanov Z.Tsvetanov ECHELLE 01:06 06:35 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW01/R 18:30 01:10 0 0 0 0 2.6 4.0 0 0 JH01/R 01:10 07:05 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.9 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: P.Gaulme First half good, with seeing of 1 arcsec. No specific problem. Observer UW01 was done few minutes earlier wrt schedule so we could start second half at 01:06. Same in second half: clear sky, good conditions, good data. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:55 tcamera 590( 961) 270 76 7.3 10.3 9.2 10.1 7.7 -- 1.03 00:12 ecamera 672( -340) 309 28 8.4 6.5 7.1 6.4 6.9 ND2 1.21 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 52 27 6 284 (WNW) 506 clear none 17:00 51 25 6 271 (W) 383 clear none 18:00 46 24 3 252 (WSW) 400 clear none 19:00 45 19 1 308 (NW) 406 clear none 20:00 44 19 6 359 (N) 252 clear none 21:00 44 24 3 11 (N) 339 clear none 22:00 46 15 1 224 (SW) 284 clear none 23:00 48 12 1 242 (WSW) 172 clear none 00:00 45 14 1 138 (SE) 211 clear none 01:00 47 14 6 176 (S) 220 clear none 02:00 47 18 11 163 (SSE) 265 clear none 03:00 46 17 13 143 (SE) 230 clear none 04:00 44 18 13 146 (SE) 263 clear none 05:00 42 18 13 172 (S) 294 clear none 06:00 41 17 13 178 (S) 263 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