Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20141215 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:45:32 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, December 15, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Kasliwal Y.Chao, M.Kasliwal DIS 17:08 18:50 Y.AlSayyad Y.AlSayyad DIS 18:50 23:00 M.Hammergren M.Hammergren SPICam 23:00 01:04 J.Wang P.Du DIS 01:14 07:10 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- PU02/R 17:08 19:00 0 0 0 0 1.9 0.0 0 0 UW04/R 19:00 23:10 0 0 0 0 4.2 0.0 0 0 AD02/R 23:10 01:10 0 0 0 0 2.0 0.0 0 0 IH01/R 01:10 06:50 0 0 0 0 0.3 5.4 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky ToO to start the evening. I also had ARCSAT engineering so I had a busy first half keeping 2 telescopes running tonight. Lost cloudcam and weather telemetry again tonight between 01:00-02:00, cloudcam before that. Weather and cloudcam cam beack between 04:00-05:00. No problems with the 3.5m tonight. I left DIS mounted for morning cals ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:32 dcamera 499( 333) -82 73 3.1 3.6 3.0 3.7 3.1 -- 1.00 18:58 dcamera 322( 133) -24 56 3.2 3.0 3.2 3.0 3.0 -- 1.20 23:19 SPIcam 360( 314) 175 70 3.8 3.0 3.7 3.1 3.2 sdss r 1.20 01:21 dcamera 253( 26) 12 55 1.7 2.2 2.7 2.1 2.1 -- 1.70 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 36 9 14 25 (NNE) 411 cloudy none 17:00 38 8 15 24 (NNE) 231 mstly cldy none 18:00 38 8 18 6 (N) 133 mstly cldy none 19:00 38 9 16 25 (NNE) 258 mstly cldy none 20:00 38 10 17 30 (NNE) 341 mstly cldy none 21:00 38 10 17 25 (NNE) 326 mstly cldy none 22:00 38 8 8 36 (NE) 348 mstly cldy none 23:00 39 4 3 153 (SSE) 447 ptly cldy none 00:00 37 3 9 122 (ESE) 445 ptly cldy none 01:00 35 4 10 108 (ESE) 363 ptly cldy none 02:00 17 139 (SE) 362 ptly cldy none 03:00 15 135 (SE) 379 ptly cldy none 04:00 20 146 (SE) 358 ptly cldy none 05:00 36 6 24 141 (SE) 397 mstly clr none 06:00 35 6 22 132 (SE) 363 mstly clr 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