Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 11:43:11 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20131007 From: "Alysha Shugart" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, October 07, 2013 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Mukadam A.Mukadam AGILE 18:48 04:46 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW03/R 18:48 06:54 2.1 0 0 0 8.1 1.9 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Shugart During afternoon checkout, I zeroed the rotator and created a new slitmask for DIS. I left DIS mounted for tomorrow. During test slews, the secondary mirror needed to be re-homed due to work during the daytime. Bill was able to home it remotely. Recovery took less than 10 minutes. Night was productive until ~4:00, when clouds became so thick, UW03 could not see through them for ~ 20 minutes. We gave up at 04:46. Waited until 05:30 for fills. Agile left powered on and rotator unpinned. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:16 AGILE 300(-1445) 117 39 8.7 12.2 11.9 11.8 9.3 BG40 1.02 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 58 21 9 224 (SW) 430 clear none 17:00 54 21 1 200 (SSW) 458 clear none 18:00 53 21 9 224 (SW) 446 clear none 19:00 49 22 5 181 (S) 592 clear none 20:00 49 17 7 177 (S) 345 clear none 21:00 49 17 12 176 (S) 369 clear none 22:00 49 18 9 175 (S) 520 mstly clr none 23:00 49 16 13 186 (S) 497 clear none 00:00 49 18 10 181 (S) 555 clear none 01:00 49 18 12 193 (SSW) 493 clear none 02:00 48 18 13 181 (S) 506 clear none 03:00 48 18 13 182 (S) 507 ptly cldy none 04:00 48 14 10 185 (S) 417 mstly cldy none 05:00 48 15 4 195 (SSW) 413 cloudy 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