Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140102 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 13:25:34 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, January 02, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- Y.AlSayyad Y.AlSayyad DIS 16:30 00:08 J.Comerford J.Comerford, F.Mueller DIS 00:30 06:57 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW01/R 17:18 00:10 0 0 0 0 5.1 1.8 0 0 CU06/R 00:10 06:57 0 0 0.3 0 6.5 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Needed to swap B1200 gratings into Bay 2, due to Bay being inop, at midnight for the 2nd half observations. This took about 20 mins. Counted time loss due to engineering. No telescope problems tonight. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:39 dcamera 753( 720) -94 57 4.3 6.1 4.8 6.7 4.0 -- 0.97 18:17 dcamera 628( 552) -19 57 4.2 5.2 4.5 5.0 3.8 -- 0.92 00:31 dcamera 530( 251) 2 55 1.8 1.2 1.6 1.4 1.5 -- 0.83 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 40 12 1 199 (SSW) 405 clear none 17:00 38 0 0 232 (SW) 405 clear none 18:00 39 -6 2 253 (WSW) 405 clear none 19:00 37 -11 3 235 (SW) 405 clear none 20:00 37 -12 5 197 (SSW) 405 mstly clr none 21:00 38 -6 8 224 (SW) 405 clear none 22:00 37 -6 6 258 (WSW) 405 clear none 23:00 34 -9 10 213 (SSW) 405 clear none 00:00 35 -9 11 182 (S) 405 clear none 01:00 10 182 (S) 405 clear none 02:00 12 215 (SW) 405 clear none 03:00 6 208 (SSW) 405 clear none 04:00 6 203 (SSW) 405 mstly clr none 05:00 9 213 (SSW) 405 ptly cldy 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