Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20130924 From: pgaulme.apo.nmsu.edu@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, September 24, 2013 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- G.Bakos X.Huang ECHELLE 18:30 01:05 F.Muller-Sanchez F.Muller-Sanchez TSPEC 01:09 06:07 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- PU02/R 19:05 01:10 0 0 0 0 3.4 2.7 0 0 CU03/R 01:10 06:45 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.6 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: P.Gaulme and A. Bradley The sky was clear all night long. Decent seeing and productive night. We trained Francisco Muller-Sanchez, Julie Comerford, David Jones on Triplespec observations. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:35 ECHELLE 341( -332) 247 57 11.5 14.1 13.8 13.5 11.6 ND2 0.76 20:22 ECHELLE 534( -277) 211 58 11.7 11.4 11.5 10.9 10.8 clear 1.15 00:21 TSPEC 549( 909) 44 65 11.4 10.0 10.2 9.7 10.6 -- 1.44 Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 63 33 8 233 (SW) 648 clear none 17:00 62 34 4 255 (WSW) 588 clear none 18:00 58 29 5 217 (SW) 539 clear none 19:00 53 31 4 206 (SSW) 571 clear none 20:00 52 25 5 172 (S) 526 clear none 21:00 51 26 6 174 (S) 530 clear none 22:00 53 21 10 183 (S) 466 clear none 23:00 53 28 8 187 (S) 620 clear none 00:00 50 28 9 175 (S) 606 clear none 01:00 49 29 10 176 (S) 657 clear none 02:00 53 26 15 180 (S) 616 clear none 03:00 52 25 10 181 (S) 575 clear none 04:00 52 25 7 194 (SSW) 641 clear none 05:00 54 25 5 263 (W) 521 clear none 06:00 53 26 5 260 (W) 594 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