Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 12:22:39 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140411 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, April 11, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Wisniewski J.Wisniewski DIS 20:19 22:32 ECHELLE 22:35 00:05 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 00:10 01:05 J.Wisniewski J.Wisniewski AGILE 01:10 02:30 ECHELLE 02:35 02:55 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- OU01/R 19:39 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.5 0 0 UW12/R 00:10 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 OU01/R 01:10 06:29 0 0 0 0 1.5 3.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Shugart, R.McMillan Mostly clear first half turning to mostly cloudy second half, until eventually the clouds were too thick even for a backup program. Seeing was good throughout. Although the nearby fire is not fully contained, it was much more subdued. There was no trouble with smoke, and no flames were visible from the ridge tonight. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:29 dcamera 272( 560) 176 78 10.7 12.6 12.9 12.1 10.2 -- 1.20 22:42 ecamera 645( -233) 84 58 9.6 10.1 10.6 9.8 9.5 clear 0.99 23:13 APOLLO 745( 1589) -38 53 9.7 9.5 10.0 9.5 9.7 530 1.30 01:42 ecamera 722( -173) 222 39 9.9 9.3 9.7 9.5 9.7 Clear 1.16 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 58 17 19 255 (WSW) 766 ptly cldy none 17:00 53 11 14 202 (SSW) 938 ptly cldy none 18:00 53 12 16 240 (WSW) 769 mstly clr none 19:00 51 12 13 198 (SSW) 581 mstly clr none 20:00 51 11 12 241 (WSW) 673 mstly clr none 21:00 51 11 10 241 (WSW) 700 mstly clr none 22:00 51 11 14 237 (WSW) 657 mstly clr none 23:00 48 14 12 222 (SW) 982 ptly cldy none 00:00 48 17 17 245 (WSW) 1458 ptly cldy none 01:00 49 18 14 255 (WSW) 1133 ptly cldy none 02:00 49 18 10 260 (W) 1014 mstly cldy none 03:00 50 20 17 250 (WSW) 715 mstly cldy none 04:00 49 19 14 240 (WSW) 800 cloudy none 05:00 48 21 19 262 (W) 799 cloudy none 06:00 48 17 19 241 (WSW) 1052 cloudy 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