Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:19:53 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140309 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, March 09, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- B.Willman B.Willman,E.Smith, SPIcam 19:15 01:02 C.Nagele,A.Gaughan, T.Yang,K.Faris A.Truebenbach A.Truebenbach NICFPS 01:17 06:50 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NA01/R 19:15 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.9 0 0 CU01/R 01:10 07:12 0 0 0 0 3.8 2.2 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan A peaceful and productive night. photometric with mediocre seeing first half and good seeing second half. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:57 SPIcam 423( 386) 103 68 -0.1 3.2 2.0 3.2 0.3 r 1.65 01:29 NICFPS 573( 712) 168 81 0.2 -0.2 0.2 -0.2 0.3 J 0.81 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 36 19 7 280 (W) 524 clear none 17:00 40 20 5 251 (WSW) 524 clear none 18:00 36 18 3 220 (SW) 524 clear none 19:00 35 18 1 236 (SW) 524 clear none 20:00 32 18 1 312 (NW) 524 clear none 21:00 35 12 14 53 (NE) 524 clear none 22:00 35 11 7 8 (N) 524 clear none 23:00 33 13 13 28 (NNE) 524 clear none 00:00 33 11 11 21 (NNE) 524 clear none 01:00 31 9 6 17 (NNE) 524 clear none 02:00 34 8 7 37 (NE) 524 clear none 03:00 35 -6 6 84 (E) 524 clear none 04:00 33 0 5 359 (N) 524 clear none 05:00 33 5 6 355 (N) 524 clear none 06:00 34 -9 7 351 (N) 524 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: 2.1.0