Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20141120 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:46:03 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, November 20, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- P.Szkody P.Szkody DIS 17:22 00:05 B.Keeney B.Keeney SPIcam 00:15 06:20 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW10/R 17:08 00:10 0 0 0 0 7.0 0.0 0 0 CU02/R 00:10 06:30 0 0 0 0 5.4 0.9 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan We had good to moderate seeing, but some high clouds. Occasionally they were thick enough to cause a struggle but never bad enough to stop observing. Everything worked well. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:40 dcamera 363( 299) 38 45 2.9 5.2 4.5 4.4 3.3 - 1.19 00:25 SPIcam 366( 272) -43 48 1.9 1.7 2.2 1.8 2.0 R 0.92 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 42 12 8 280 (W) 535 clear none 17:00 38 8 10 305 (NW) 402 clear none 18:00 37 7 12 267 (W) 426 clear none 19:00 37 10 11 260 (W) 510 clear none 20:00 36 9 12 252 (WSW) 530 mstly clr none 21:00 36 11 10 268 (W) 464 ptly cldy none 22:00 36 13 9 258 (WSW) 389 ptly cldy none 23:00 35 14 11 261 (W) 284 ptly cldy none 00:00 36 15 13 245 (WSW) 207 ptly cldy none 01:00 36 15 11 263 (W) 257 ptly cldy none 02:00 36 14 14 252 (WSW) 286 ptly cldy none 03:00 36 14 11 253 (WSW) 283 ptly cldy none 04:00 36 14 10 261 (W) 306 ptly cldy none 05:00 36 13 10 257 (WSW) 296 mstly clr none 06:00 34 12 10 261 (W) 366 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: 2.3.2