Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140108 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 14:01:16 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, January 08, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 16:45 18:24 M.Kasliwal M.Kasliwal, Y.Cao DIS 18:30 21:14 J.Hartman M.de Val-Borro Echelle 21:17 23:58 K.Kinemuchi K.Kinemuchi, J.Nemec Echelle 23:58 06:31 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW08/R 17:23 18:23 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 PU03/R 18:23 21:17 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.9 0 0 PU05/R 21:17 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.9 0 0 NM11/R 00:10 06:58 0 0 0 0 5.5 1.3 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Miguel got a strange error when starting the echelle guiding. We noticed a few minutes later that the guiding was off, and started it again. The error was: 06:45:12 PU05.Miguel 132 ecam f text="\"Keyword 'TIMESYS' not found.\"" The night was otherwise very productive, with good seeing most of the time. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:11 APOLLO 775( 1289) 75 65 0.8 3.2 3.0 3.3 1.1 -- 2.40 17:26 APOLLO 725( 1219) 41 63 0.3 2.8 2.6 2.3 0.9 -- 1.70 18:37 dcamera 478( 212) 135 49 0.7 1.3 1.3 0.9 0.3 -- 1.36 21:20 ecamera 696( -690) 243 44 0.1 -0.2 0.2 -0.2 -0.5 ND2 0.77 00:07 ecamera 727( -649) 210 45 0.6 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.2 Clear 0.90 03:19 ecamera 707( -664) 5 32 -0.2 -0.3 0.2 -0.3 -0.3 Clear 1.30 05:38 ecamera 713( -657) -83 32 0.0 -0.3 0.1 -0.0 -0.2 Clear 0.97 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 36 9 10 268 (W) 405 clear none 17:00 34 9 10 269 (W) 405 clear none 18:00 34 10 13 271 (W) 405 clear none 19:00 33 9 9 262 (W) 405 clear none 20:00 33 9 10 262 (W) 405 clear none 21:00 33 9 8 263 (W) 405 clear none 22:00 34 6 6 262 (W) 405 clear none 23:00 34 5 12 284 (WNW) 405 clear none 00:00 33 6 9 272 (W) 405 clear none 01:00 34 4 7 296 (WNW) 405 clear none 02:00 33 5 12 315 (NW) 405 clear none 03:00 32 5 9 279 (W) 405 mstly clr none 04:00 32 5 10 269 (W) 405 clear none 05:00 31 6 6 260 (W) 405 clear none 06:00 31 6 16 262 (W) 405 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