Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20131105 From: pgaulme@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 13:12:26 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, November 05, 2013 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- H.Weaver H.Weaver SPICAM 19:40 00:08 A.McKay A.McKay ECHELLE 00:12 05:50 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- JH03/R 17:17 00:10 0.3 2.1 0 0 4.5 0 0 0 NM04/R 00:10 06:17 0 0 0 0 6.1 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: P.Gaulme Cloud in early night. Dome opening at 19:40. First focus loop did not work but focus was okay. I manually reported its first value in the focus log window. The rest oh the night was good with no problems. Left the telescope at 80degrees on BC1 for Apollo tests. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:02 SPIcam 370( ) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Clear 1.22 21:22 SPIcam 506( 418) -48 46 0.9 1.8 2.1 1.6 0.8 Clear 0.99 22:25 SPIcam 563( 441) 108 37 0.3 0.8 1.2 0.6 0.1 Clear 1.54 00:21 ecamera 703( -680) 101 49 1.1 0.0 0.5 -0.1 0.2 Clear 1.21 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 7 301 (WNW) 477 ptly cldy none 17:00 38 22 14 263 (W) 446 mstly cldy none 18:00 38 23 14 267 (W) 774 mstly cldy none 19:00 36 25 14 282 (WNW) 688 ptly cldy none 20:00 35 27 7 270 (W) 522 clear none 21:00 34 26 11 299 (WNW) 355 clear none 22:00 33 24 13 325 (NW) 390 clear none 23:00 32 22 8 353 (N) 341 clear none 00:00 34 24 9 309 (NW) 411 clear none 01:00 33 23 9 290 (WNW) 394 clear none 02:00 32 22 12 311 (NW) 359 clear none 03:00 32 21 7 323 (NW) 396 clear none 04:00 31 21 12 319 (NW) 443 clear none 05:00 31 19 10 326 (NW) 395 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