Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20131209 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:24:16 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, December 09, 2013 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- G.Stringfellow G.Stringfellow TSPEC 16:05 19:09 G.Bakos J.Hartman ECHELLE 19:09 00:10 J.Darling J.Darling DIS 00:10 06:46 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- CU10/R 17:06 19:06 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 0 0 PU07/R 19:06 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.1 0 0 CU09/R 00:10 06:46 0 0 0 0 6.1 0.5 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Caught an odd bug in dcamera at UT10:31:51. It lost the boresight for one frame. I took a new exposure and the boresight came back and all was well again. Here is a log snippet of the failure. 10:31:51 CU09.JeremyDarling.dcam 7404 dcamera : camFile=/export/images/dcam/UT131210/d0282.fits 10:31:51 CmdDone: client-46 7404 dcamera expose exptime=40.0 bin=1,1 offset=0,0 size=512,512 filename=/export/images/dcam/UT131210/d0282.fits 10:31:51 CU09.JeremyDarling 84 dcam w text="no filename has been reserved" 10:31:51 CmdStarted: client-46 7407 fits finish dcam infile=/export/images/dcam/UT131210/d0282.fits outfile=/export/images/dcam/UT131210/d0282.fits 10:31:51 client-46 7407 fits f hubTxt="No header to finish for dcam" I took a few hundred images with na2 guider. Shutter seemed to be working but I didn't examine every frame. DIS left mounted for morning cals. Productive night. No problems other than the one incedent noted above. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:40 tcamera 729( 402) 46 57 -6.6 -3.6 -3.3 -3.6 -6.2 Ks 1.45 19:16 ecamera 707(-1013) -94 56 -6.8 -6.5 -5.9 -6.5 -6.8 ND2 1.77 21:56 ecamera 778( -922) -40 80 -5.0 -5.8 -5.4 -5.8 -4.8 clear 1.30 00:29 dcamera 580( 12) 195 69 -4.1 -4.3 -3.8 -4.0 -4.1 -- 1.10 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 22 16 6 321 (NW) 405 clear none 17:00 19 12 14 44 (NE) 405 mstly clr none 18:00 20 3 10 352 (N) 405 clear none 19:00 20 -3 18 15 (NNE) 405 clear none 20:00 21 -17 16 13 (NNE) 405 clear none 21:00 22 -23 26 21 (NNE) 405 clear none 22:00 23 -21 15 32 (NNE) 405 clear none 23:00 25 -19 9 9 (N) 405 clear none 00:00 25 -20 8 337 (NNW) 405 clear none 01:00 24 -21 4 0 (N) 405 clear none 02:00 30 -17 8 3 (N) 405 clear none 03:00 24 -20 4 200 (SSW) 405 clear none 04:00 24 -22 3 133 (SE) 405 clear none 05:00 26 -20 1 144 (SE) 405 clear none 06:00 27 -20 1 204 (SSW) 405 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