Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140312 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:48:29 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, March 12, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- B.Willman see below DIS 19:14 00:05 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 00:10 01:08 D.Christian D.Christiansan ECHELLE 01:11 06:37 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NA01/R 19:17 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.9 0 0 UW08/R 00:10 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 CS01/R 01:10 07:08 0 0 0 0 1.8 4.2 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley NA01 observers: Tianyi Yang, Eric Smith, Chris Nagele, Kai Faris, and Andrea Gaughan, and Beth Willman First half went well, with variable seeing. Second half had some spotty clouds, but overall it was beautiful. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:39 dcamera 351( 160) 70 47 -1.7 2.7 2.5 3.6 -0.4 -- 1.71 22:46 dcamera 601( 322) 61 37 1.0 0.7 1.2 1.0 0.9 -- 1.20 00:21 ecamera 708( -690) -79 74 0.9 0.1 0.5 0.1 0.0 ND3 0.88 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 33 16 1 341 (NNW) 524 clear none 17:00 34 15 10 306 (NW) 524 clear none 18:00 32 13 12 333 (NNW) 524 clear none 19:00 31 13 4 358 (N) 524 clear none 20:00 30 11 12 71 (ENE) 524 clear none 21:00 31 6 4 95 (E) 524 clear none 22:00 34 8 5 135 (SE) 524 clear none 23:00 35 5 10 135 (SE) 524 clear none 00:00 33 11 8 129 (SE) 524 mstly clr none 01:00 34 11 12 180 (S) 524 mstly clr none 02:00 33 11 12 146 (SE) 524 mstly clr none 03:00 32 9 18 129 (SE) 524 clear none 04:00 32 8 18 152 (SSE) 524 clear none 05:00 33 6 12 168 (SSE) 524 clear none 06:00 32 8 9 154 (SSE) 524 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