Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 13:00:18 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20131005 From: "Alysha Shugart" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, October 05, 2013 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Newman A.Newman SPICAM 18:51 06:53 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- PU05/R 18:51 06:53 0 0 0 0 11.7 0.3 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Shugart During afternoon checkout, Agile decided to lose it's filter wheel. It was a fast correction- I issued a hub startNubs command and reconnected Agile, and homed the filter wheel. No other problems thus far. Tonight was clear and productive, with seeing from 1.4-2.6" after the wind picked up a bit. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:41 SPIcam 535( 665) 1 58 4.0 5.8 5.9 5.2 3.9 SDSSi 1.87 21:13 SPIcam 468( 667) 115 74 5.0 4.4 4.8 4.3 4.4 SDSSr 1.62 00:19 SPIcam 471( 663) 109 62 4.3 4.0 4.5 4.0 4.1 SDSSr 1.43 02:32 SPIcam 420( 659) 2 54 3.4 3.2 3.7 3.1 2.8 SDSSi 2.62 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 43 13 7 289 (WNW) 410 clear none 17:00 43 8 16 308 (NW) 278 clear none 18:00 42 4 12 359 (N) 225 clear none 19:00 41 5 12 4 (N) 124 clear none 20:00 40 6 12 16 (NNE) 132 clear none 21:00 40 5 22 13 (NNE) 121 clear none 22:00 41 8 17 12 (NNE) 140 clear none 23:00 40 5 14 19 (NNE) 158 clear none 00:00 40 5 12 46 (NE) 93 clear none 01:00 41 9 5 48 (NE) 129 clear none 02:00 39 8 7 357 (N) 105 clear none 03:00 39 9 12 3 (N) 154 clear none 04:00 39 9 8 71 (ENE) 172 clear none 05:00 39 9 5 98 (E) 154 clear none 06:00 39 9 2 67 (ENE) 135 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