Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140401 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 12:36:43 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, April 01, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Wang P.Du, C.Hu DIS 20:17 01:04 J.Bally Class, see log DIS 01:04 03:55 TSPEC 04:14 05:55 Eyepiece 05:55 06:30 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- IH01/R 19:32 01:10 0 0 0 0 3.4 2.2 0 0 CU01/R 01:10 06:41 0 0 0 0 5.5 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley The night was clear and beautiful, with decent seeing for the most part. Had some high winds and clouds at sunset, but they cleared quickly. In the CU class led by John Ballly--Mikayla Bouley, Akeem Huggins, Lauren Kidd, Elisabeth Moger, Edward Nerney, Karyn Perdue, Miriam Rosenshein, Chloe Stabler, Samual Stuver, Andrew Trujillo, Jesse Witbrod, Allison Youngblood, Bryan Holler ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:27 dcamera 524( 617) 224 53 7.8 8.4 8.7 8.4 7.6 -- 1.33 00:12 dcamera 539( 512) -160 46 5.9 5.9 6.5 5.9 5.8 -- 1.73 01:31 dcamera 565( 481) 183 68 5.7 5.2 5.8 5.2 5.1 -- 1.10 03:27 tcamera 643( 796) 24 22 4.7 4.6 5.2 4.7 4.6 -- 2.60 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 50 12 20 247 (WSW) 1280 mstly cldy wind 17:00 48 12 29 245 (WSW) 1279 mstly cldy wind 18:00 48 5 25 257 (WSW) 1491 mstly cldy wind 19:00 48 5 31 254 (WSW) 1293 mstly cldy wind 20:00 46 3 28 263 (W) 1448 mstly clr wind 21:00 45 2 21 265 (W) 1251 clear none 22:00 45 3 19 255 (WSW) 1183 clear none 23:00 45 1 19 266 (W) 1207 clear none 00:00 44 1 12 271 (W) 995 clear none 01:00 43 1 16 265 (W) 1032 clear none 02:00 42 2 20 272 (W) 970 clear none 03:00 42 4 17 257 (WSW) 962 clear none 04:00 41 10 18 267 (W) 885 clear none 05:00 40 9 16 263 (W) 932 clear none 06:00 40 10 19 263 (W) 891 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: 2.2.0