Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20141014 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:34:42 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, October 14, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- C.Huitson C.Huitson ECHELLE 18:53 20:30 C.Huitson C.Huitson TSPEC 20:32 01:00 G.Bakos J.Hartman ECHELLE 01:02 06:20 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- CU04/R 18:40 01:10 0 0 0 0 5.1 1.4 0 0 PU05/R 01:10 06:59 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley The night was gorgeous and clear, with excellent seeing most of the time. We had a very productive night. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:00 tcamera 331( 768) 113 52 8.1 11.2 10.8 11.4 85.0 -- 1.09 18:13 ecamera 213( -613) 113 54 9.9 11.0 10.6 10.8 85.0 ND3 0.82 19:39 tcamera 376( 719) 273 74 9.5 9.7 10.0 9.4 85.0 -- 1.12 00:09 ecamera 376( -570) 233 76 9.4 9.0 9.7 8.9 85.0 ND1 0.83 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 50 22 6 318 (NW) 412 clear none 17:00 50 23 1 252 (WSW) 354 clear none 18:00 48 23 1 200 (SSW) 347 clear none 19:00 47 24 7 44 (NE) 386 clear none 20:00 50 23 7 73 (ENE) 307 clear none 21:00 48 24 6 81 (E) 313 clear none 22:00 50 23 1 150 (SSE) 323 clear none 23:00 50 19 6 95 (E) 262 clear none 00:00 51 15 1 342 (NNW) 222 clear none 01:00 51 10 7 127 (SE) 167 clear none 02:00 48 12 15 134 (SE) 172 clear none 03:00 49 18 14 142 (SE) 211 clear none 04:00 47 14 5 186 (S) 161 clear none 05:00 48 15 2 174 (S) 176 clear none 06:00 50 20 5 184 (S) 263 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: 2.3.1