Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 13:38:13 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140228 From: "Alysha Shugart" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, February 28, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Wang P.Du DIS 18:28 00:02 A.Mukadam A.Mukadam Agile 00:06 06:15 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- IH01/R 18:08 00:10 0 0 0 0 6.0 0.0 0 0 UW02/R 00:10 06:23 0 0 0 0 6.2 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Shugart No problems during the night. Until clouds rolled in after midnight, we saw seeing below 1". We attemtepd to use the new guiding software with Agile during second half, but it had trouble keeping up with offsets. Stay posted for more detailed emails. At 06:00, Agile got hung up. Biases were able to read out, but darks and flats were not. Email sent. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:46 dcamera 592( 641) 185 70 6.7 7.8 7.6 7.5 6.7 -- 1.01 00:14 AGILE 592(-1506) 252 73 6.2 6.0 6.4 5.9 6.0 BG40 0.80 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 47 18 16 261 (W) 684 clear none 17:00 47 20 14 264 (W) 623 clear none 18:00 44 20 17 238 (WSW) 709 clear none 19:00 44 21 18 243 (WSW) 485 clear none 20:00 45 22 15 268 (W) 399 mstly clr none 21:00 45 22 12 270 (W) 412 ptly cldy none 22:00 44 22 10 264 (W) 476 ptly cldy none 23:00 44 22 16 265 (W) 443 mstly clr none 00:00 43 23 14 264 (W) 442 ptly cldy none 01:00 43 23 18 274 (W) 450 clear none 02:00 41 22 16 267 (W) 469 clear none 03:00 41 22 15 264 (W) 467 clear none 04:00 40 19 17 238 (WSW) 494 clear none 05:00 39 20 22 230 (SW) 609 clear none 06:00 39 20 16 204 (SSW) 618 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: 2.1.0