Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20141004 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 13:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, October 04, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Kaiser M.Kaiser, M.Morris TSPEC 17:30 01:02 C.Sakari C.Sakari, J. Overbeek DIS 01:10 06:25 Echelle 06:25 06:49 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- JH06/R 18:52 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 6.3 0 0 UW07/O 01:10 06:52 0 0 0 0 3.0 2.7 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Observer reported ghosted buttons both using the TSPEC guider and Echelle guider tonight. They were running TUi V1.9.4 on Windows. Training C.Sakari and J.Overbeek for remote observations 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:15 tcamera 232( 821) 198 62 11.9 14.4 14.3 14.5 85.0 Ks 0.86 20:51 ecamera 181( -576) -21 56 12.0 12.4 12.5 12.0 85.0 ND3 0.81 01:48 dcamera 235( 492) -107 77 11.9 12.0 12.4 12.1 85.0 -- 1.15 06:32 ecamera 335( -620) -89 83 9.0 8.8 9.3 8.8 85.0 ND1 0.84 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 57 25 12 319 (NW) 513 clear none 17:00 58 25 6 283 (WNW) 511 clear none 18:00 56 26 4 300 (WNW) 499 clear none 19:00 53 24 7 345 (NNW) 476 clear none 20:00 53 26 6 278 (W) 641 clear none 21:00 54 25 5 259 (W) 795 clear none 22:00 53 24 9 264 (W) 933 clear none 23:00 54 24 9 231 (SW) 677 clear none 00:00 54 22 7 218 (SW) 692 clear none 01:00 54 22 14 299 (WNW) 575 clear none 02:00 54 18 10 291 (WNW) 582 clear none 03:00 51 22 17 333 (NNW) 523 clear none 04:00 51 22 17 341 (NNW) 363 clear none 05:00 49 22 11 316 (NW) 350 clear none 06:00 48 21 6 17 (NNE) 446 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