Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140208 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 13:18:21 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, February 08, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- N.Chanover N.Chanover, N.Schneider DIS 17:30 00:10 J.Turner, M.Chaffin M.Eracleous M.Eracleous DIS 00:10 01:10 J.Holtzman N.Ouellette DIS 01:10 04:10 05:10 06:10 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM02/R 17:51 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 6.3 0 0 UW07/R 00:10 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 NM07/R 01:10 06:43 1.0 0 0 0 2.8 1.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Data going into CU03 program directory tonight, as they are collaborating with NM02. Thicker clouds rolled in around 04:00. They made guiding difficult but we stayed open. We re-opened at 05:10 ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:18 dcamera 458( 328) 147 64 2.8 4.3 4.1 4.8 3.0 ND3 0.97 00:16 dcamera 543( 437) -48 45 4.4 4.3 4.7 4.6 4.5 -- 1.40 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 39 17 7 272 (W) 162 ptly cldy none 17:00 38 17 12 360 (N) 158 ptly cldy none 18:00 37 16 7 330 (NNW) 136 ptly cldy none 19:00 37 16 11 292 (WNW) 193 ptly cldy none 20:00 35 17 9 268 (W) 165 clear none 21:00 36 17 8 203 (SSW) 264 mstly clr none 22:00 37 18 7 234 (SW) 355 clear none 23:00 39 18 10 260 (W) 225 clear none 00:00 41 17 14 262 (W) 129 ptly cldy none 01:00 37 18 13 235 (SW) 142 ptly cldy none 02:00 38 18 11 263 (W) 126 ptly cldy none 03:00 38 18 18 272 (W) 155 mstly cldy none 04:00 37 17 18 274 (W) 135 cloudy none 05:00 37 15 21 296 (WNW) 117 mstly cldy none 06:00 37 15 24 299 (WNW) 134 ptly cldy 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