Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140402 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:47:05 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, April 02, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO --:-- --:-- J.Bally Class, see log DIS 01:30 04:45 TSPEC 04:54 06:30 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW12/R 19:33 20:33 0 1.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 CU01/R 20:33 06:40 2.7 2.2 0 0 5.2 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley CU01 class--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 First half was lost to high winds and LOTS of dust. When we finally were able to open, the seeing was not great. But they got useful data all the same. :) ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 00:58 dcamera 118( -58) 203 42 0.5 2.9 5.8 2.5 1.0 -- 2.30 02:25 dcamera 393( 61) 203 66 -0.6 0.3 1.5 0.1 -0.5 -- 1.50 04:04 tcamera 740( 555) 72 26 -2.4 -1.8 -1.1 -2.0 -2.4 -- 2.00 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 51 12 29 257 (WSW) 6265 mstly cldy wind 17:00 50 10 33 239 (WSW) 5722 mstly clr dust 18:00 48 8 41 229 (SW) 43720 clear dust 19:00 45 6 34 220 (SW) 25162 clear dust 20:00 43 5 32 232 (SW) 19478 clear dust 21:00 42 5 32 222 (SW) 28508 clear dust 22:00 40 4 25 224 (SW) 19162 clear dust 23:00 39 3 16 251 (WSW) 11083 clear dust 00:00 37 4 23 238 (WSW) 13167 clear dust 01:00 35 5 22 248 (WSW) 6987 clear none 02:00 33 15 16 263 (W) 2460 clear none 03:00 32 17 19 266 (W) 1895 clear none 04:00 30 17 16 271 (W) 2229 clear none 05:00 28 16 19 291 (WNW) 1826 clear none 06:00 27 17 20 293 (WNW) 1601 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