Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140521 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 11:41:16 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, May 21, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Bentz M.Bentz DIS 19:14 21:07 J.Holtzman N.Ouellette DIS 21:07 00:56 A.Youngblood A.Youngblood TSPEC 01:11 05:25 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- GS04/R 20:08 21:08 0 0 0 0 1.0 0.0 0 0 NM06/R 21:08 01:10 0 0 0 0 4.0 0.0 0 0 CU03/R 01:10 05:51 0 0 0 0 0.8 3.9 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Night was productive, with ok seeing. Some minor clouds gave us problems, but nothing terrible. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:29 dcamera 493( 966) 69 72 13.6 16.2 16.2 15.9 14.2 -- 1.80 00:17 tcamera 572( 1122) 23 22 11.2 12.4 13.0 12.1 11.5 -- 1.41 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 65 25 17 217 (SW) 2080 mstly clr none 17:00 67 25 15 235 (SW) 1971 mstly clr none 18:00 65 24 28 216 (SW) 2013 mstly clr none 19:00 62 22 9 228 (SW) 1980 mstly clr none 20:00 58 17 20 214 (SW) 1923 mstly clr none 21:00 55 16 8 200 (SSW) 2045 clear none 22:00 56 17 8 235 (SW) 2245 clear none 23:00 57 17 8 262 (W) 2263 clear none 00:00 56 15 7 289 (WNW) 1558 clear none 01:00 55 18 7 351 (N) 1370 clear none 02:00 53 20 8 304 (NW) 1096 mstly clr none 03:00 53 21 5 324 (NW) 813 mstly clr none 04:00 53 21 9 314 (NW) 886 mstly clr none 05:00 53 21 5 273 (W) 964 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: 2.2.0