Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 11:32:03 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20130526 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, May 26, 2013 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Heckman L.Martins TSPEC 20:20 01:05 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 01:08 01:49 P.Gaulme J.McKeever,D.Mozdzierski Echelle 01:59 05:15 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- JH03/R 20:12 01:10 0 0 0 0 1.7 3.3 0 0 DD01/R 01:10 01:55 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.8 0 0 NM03/R 01:55 05:49 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.9 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Some high clouds at the start of the night made difficulties in the IR, but didn't prevent observations. The clouds cleared out before too long and the remainder of the night was very peaceful and successful. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:31 TSPEC 677( 1057) 163 58 16.4 17.0 16.2 16.9 15.9 Ks 1.20 00:06 APOLLO 525( 1260) 76 37 14.0 13.7 14.1 13.7 13.6 530 1.50 01:09 ECHELLE 514( -557) 111 64 13.9 13.3 13.8 13.3 13.2 ND1 0.98 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 70 22 17 243 (WSW) 1960 ptly cldy none 17:00 67 18 21 208 (SSW) 1470 ptly cldy none 18:00 64 15 22 266 (W) 2177 ptly cldy none 19:00 64 10 17 263 (W) 1142 ptly cldy none 20:00 62 6 25 251 (WSW) 1742 ptly cldy none 21:00 60 4 15 272 (W) 2853 mstly clr none 22:00 59 5 10 267 (W) 1568 mstly clr none 23:00 58 7 11 271 (W) 1209 clear none 00:00 58 6 10 272 (W) 1037 clear none 01:00 58 4 9 271 (W) 878 clear none 02:00 57 3 9 268 (W) 853 clear none 03:00 57 2 9 270 (W) 885 clear none 04:00 56 3 15 293 (WNW) 907 clear none 05:00 55 3 14 268 (W) 885 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