Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20130319 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:01:31 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, March 19, 2013 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- D.York M.Fumagalli, S.Colombo TSPEC 19:23 20:23 23:23 01:10 M.Fumagalli M.Fumagalli, S.Colombo TSPEC 01:10 06:40 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UC02/R 19:23 01:10 3.0 0 0 0 0.0 2.8 0 0 PU03/R 01:10 06:58 0 0 0 0 4.4 1.4 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky I had to restart ecamera/ecam tonight to get the echelle slitviewer working. UC02 time given to PU03 tonight. Clouds stopped us for a few hours during first half but the rest of the night was very productive. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:47 TSPEC 564( 483) 80 78 5.8 8.3 7.8 8.3 6.2 Ks 0.78 23:23 TSPEC 385( 75) -41 65 4.1 3.7 4.0 4.0 3.1 Ks 1.20 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 48 13 14 294 (WNW) 1636 ptly cldy none 17:00 46 14 16 336 (NNW) 1587 ptly cldy none 18:00 49 15 11 265 (W) 1609 ptly cldy none 19:00 44 13 1 273 (W) 1412 ptly cldy none 20:00 43 13 10 42 (NE) 1509 cloudy none 21:00 38 15 20 60 (ENE) 1693 cloudy none 22:00 37 17 23 69 (ENE) 1549 cloudy none 23:00 36 18 12 63 (ENE) 1411 ptly cldy none 00:00 36 19 14 70 (ENE) 1690 ptly cldy none 01:00 40 18 1 317 (NW) 1275 clear none 02:00 37 18 1 91 (E) 1347 clear none 03:00 39 17 2 208 (SSW) 1553 clear none 04:00 37 16 5 243 (WSW) 1664 clear none 05:00 37 17 4 229 (SW) 1653 clear none 06:00 37 17 2 227 (SW) 1607 mstly clr 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: 2.0.0