Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140503 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 12:12:26 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, May 03, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 19:40 20:55 P.Szkody P.Szkody DIS 20:55 01:05 G.Bakos X.Huang ECHELLE 01:15 05:45 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW12/R 19:55 20:55 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 UW01/R 20:55 01:10 0 0 0 0 1.2 3.0 0 0 PU04/R 01:10 06:05 0 0 0 0 4.9 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Echelle slitviewer hung around 11:25UT. I restarted ecamera and ecam fixed the problem. Clear all night. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:53 APOLLO 850( 2000) 66 55 11.2 14.4 13.0 14.6 11.9 -- 1.20 21:04 dcamera 589( 860) -172 80 11.1 12.2 11.9 11.5 10.7 -- 0.93 21:43 dcamera 564( 796) 185 66 10.8 11.3 11.4 11.1 10.4 -- 1.00 01:26 ecamera 699( -189) -65 60 10.5 9.9 10.4 9.9 10.1 ND5 0.62 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 62 18 15 213 (SSW) 2197 clear none 17:00 65 21 14 264 (W) 2128 clear none 18:00 60 16 10 257 (WSW) 2311 clear none 19:00 56 14 8 261 (W) 2131 clear none 20:00 52 10 11 232 (SW) 1998 clear none 21:00 52 10 11 196 (SSW) 1825 clear none 22:00 51 11 10 186 (S) 2247 clear none 23:00 51 9 11 185 (S) 2338 clear none 00:00 51 9 9 189 (S) 2278 clear none 01:00 51 9 8 182 (S) 2070 clear none 02:00 51 8 6 180 (S) 2249 clear none 03:00 51 8 11 212 (SSW) 2054 clear none 04:00 51 9 8 215 (SW) 2146 clear none 05:00 50 9 7 215 (SW) 2138 clear none 06:00 49 6 7 224 (SW) 2051 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