Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140506 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 11:51:57 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, May 06, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Wang P.Du, C.Hu DIS 20:10 21:33 DIS 23:56 01:08 A.Youngblood A.Youngblood TSPEC 01:17 05:40 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- IH01/R 19:57 01:10 0 2.6 0 0 0.0 2.6 0 0 CU03/R 01:10 06:02 0 0 0 0 4.2 0.7 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Started out with dust and high winds. We were able to open for a short while before the dust spiked. After the wind cleared, clouds started giving us problems. We remained open, but they were often too thick to observe through with either DIS or TSPEC. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:18 dcamera 523( 835) 85 58 11.0 12.8 12.8 12.7 11.4 -- 1.59 00:25 tcamera 629( 995) 33 17 8.1 8.6 9.3 8.5 8.1 -- 2.52 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 57 16 19 262 (W) 2256 mstly clr dust 17:00 58 16 35 252 (WSW) 2713 mstly clr dust 18:00 57 18 24 252 (WSW) 2277 mstly clr dust 19:00 55 20 24 249 (WSW) 3953 mstly clr dust 20:00 52 20 27 242 (WSW) 3571 mstly clr dust 21:00 52 19 23 239 (WSW) 4637 mstly clr dust 22:00 50 23 36 238 (WSW) 14677 mstly clr dust 23:00 50 24 22 259 (W) 10440 mstly clr dust 00:00 49 23 18 241 (WSW) 4692 mstly clr dust 01:00 48 24 21 240 (WSW) 2693 mstly clr none 02:00 47 23 16 237 (WSW) 1992 ptly cldy none 03:00 46 22 14 260 (W) 1819 ptly cldy none 04:00 45 23 14 242 (WSW) 1563 ptly cldy none 05:00 44 22 15 240 (WSW) 1526 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