Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20141003 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 12:35:26 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, October 03, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Jackiewicz J.Jackiewicz ECHELLE 18:05 06:09 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM01/R 18:54 06:51 0 0 0 0 4.1 7.9 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky We had a couple of incidents of the Echelle slitviewer camera hanging. restarts of either ecam or ecamera quickly got things working again. No other problems ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:30 ecamera 282( -458) 197 52 10.6 12.7 12.0 11.8 85.0 ND4 0.92 20:29 ecamera 235( -563) 258 54 12.6 11.6 11.4 10.8 85.0 ND4 0.91 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 60 28 4 232 (SW) 522 clear none 17:00 61 28 4 257 (WSW) 589 clear none 18:00 56 27 6 233 (SW) 528 clear none 19:00 51 26 6 180 (S) 723 clear none 20:00 50 25 6 110 (ESE) 567 clear none 21:00 54 14 7 348 (NNW) 204 clear none 22:00 53 14 4 321 (NW) 191 clear none 23:00 51 18 5 248 (WSW) 434 clear none 00:00 51 19 5 236 (SW) 424 clear none 01:00 51 19 7 214 (SW) 418 clear none 02:00 50 21 7 204 (SSW) 511 clear none 03:00 49 24 6 184 (S) 584 clear none 04:00 49 24 10 216 (SW) 555 clear none 05:00 47 25 9 211 (SSW) 751 clear none 06:00 47 25 9 222 (SW) 748 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