Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20131217 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:47:28 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, December 17, 2013 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- G.Wallerstein G.Wallerstein Echelle 17:08 18:08 J.Bally J.Bally TSPEC 18:08 21:09 K.Kinemuchi K.Kinemuchi, J.Nemec Echelle 21:09 00:10 K.Pan K,Pan, J.Wang, P.Du DIS 00:10 06:51 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW10/R 17:08 18:08 0 0 0 0 0.4 0.6 0 0 CU03/R 18:08 21:09 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.0 0 0 NM11/R 21:09 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.0 0 0 IH01/O 00:10 06:51 0 0 0 0 0.0 6.7 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Training J.Wang and P.Du on 3.5m telescope operations. Rotator zero'ed at start of 2nd half program, +0.075 ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:13 ecamera 700( -170) 188 64 6.4 10.4 8.6 10.6 7.0 ND5 0.92 18:09 tcamera 531( 819) 216 83 5.8 8.6 7.5 8.1 6.3 Ks 0.98 21:23 ecamera 675( -354) 271 35 6.7 6.5 7.0 6.6 6.3 clear 0.63 22:27 ecamera 674( -409) 185 59 6.6 6.1 6.7 6.3 5.9 ND1 0.83 00:34 dcamera 442( 358) 207 66 5.4 5.2 5.7 5.2 4.7 -- 1.26 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 47 15 4 197 (SSW) 405 ptly cldy none 17:00 43 15 1 204 (SSW) 405 ptly cldy none 18:00 43 14 4 90 (E) 405 mstly clr none 19:00 45 10 5 96 (E) 405 mstly clr none 20:00 44 3 9 85 (E) 405 mstly clr none 21:00 45 1 5 95 (E) 405 mstly clr none 22:00 44 0 2 117 (ESE) 405 clear none 23:00 44 0 3 123 (ESE) 405 mstly clr none 00:00 41 -2 8 130 (SE) 405 mstly clr none 01:00 41 -2 2 144 (SE) 405 mstly clr none 02:00 40 0 3 175 (S) 405 mstly clr none 03:00 41 0 5 188 (S) 405 ptly cldy none 04:00 40 1 4 184 (S) 405 ptly cldy none 05:00 39 1 5 256 (WSW) 405 ptly cldy none 06:00 39 3 3 323 (NW) 405 ptly cldy 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