Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20141101 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 12:39:36 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, November 01, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- G.Bakos W.Bhatti ECHELLE --:-- --:-- M.Hammergren M.Hammergren SPICam, AGILE --:-- --:-- J.Bary J.Bary ECHELLE --:-- --:-- INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- PU05/R 18:21 00:10 0.0 5.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 AD02/R 00:10 02:10 0.4 1.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 NA04/R 01:10 06:13 4.1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky The time change tonight makes the time accounting look a little funny. Training for remote operations of TUI for Brucker, Nault Clouds from an approaching storm basically kept us closed all night. Too close for comfort to try to open. The enclosure dewpoint sensor seemed to be wrong (48% humidity vs. 80% new optidew and 83% SDSS). I went with the higher numbers ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 54 29 15 192 (SSW) 642 ptly cldy none 17:00 52 30 26 197 (SSW) 590 ptly cldy none 18:00 49 30 25 233 (SW) 562 mstly cldy none 19:00 49 30 17 203 (SSW) 578 mstly cldy none 20:00 49 30 19 186 (S) 606 mstly cldy none 21:00 49 30 25 191 (S) 757 mstly cldy none 22:00 49 29 24 191 (S) 912 mstly cldy none 23:00 47 29 30 194 (SSW) 800 mstly cldy none 00:00 46 27 24 195 (SSW) 906 mstly cldy none 01:00 45 28 22 199 (SSW) 923 mstly cldy none 01:00 44 29 26 205 (SSW) 795 mstly cldy none 02:00 45 29 26 214 (SW) 699 mstly cldy none 03:00 45 27 19 202 (SSW) 694 mstly cldy none 04:00 45 29 13 203 (SSW) 723 cloudy none 05:00 45 28 17 191 (S) 840 cloudy 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: 2.3.2