Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20130409 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:04:19 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, April 09, 2013 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Mukadam A.Mukadam Agile --:-- --:-- INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW01/R 19:38 06:31 10.8 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Heavy clouds, tons of dust and wind, nearby radar returns throughout the night. Snow flurries after ~04:30. Ran @snow all night. Telescope parked at 0 az 75 alt at 05:30. The right hand screen for the dataq computer seems to be dead. The power button does not turn it on. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 31 15 21 244 (WSW) 10357 cloudy dust 17:00 30 15 33 236 (SW) 8947 cloudy dust 18:00 32 15 20 260 (W) 14784 cloudy dust 19:00 31 16 21 288 (WNW) 16130 cloudy dust 20:00 31 15 16 264 (W) 9399 cloudy dust 21:00 30 18 9 276 (W) 9637 cloudy none 22:00 29 18 11 286 (WNW) 6961 cloudy none 23:00 28 19 1 223 (SW) 3492 cloudy none 00:00 29 17 1 259 (W) 2738 cloudy humid 01:00 26 18 6 188 (S) 2968 cloudy humid 02:00 25 19 5 180 (S) 1763 cloudy humid 03:00 26 20 7 221 (SW) 1469 cloudy humid 04:00 26 20 4 221 (SW) 1433 cloudy humid 05:00 25 21 6 255 (WSW) 1481 cloudy lt snow 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