Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 11:57:35 -0000 (UTC) Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140508 From: "Alysha Shugart" Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, May 08, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Murphy R.McMillan,N.Johnson APOLLO 19:50 21:05 M.Skrutskie M.Skrutskie TSPEC 21:09 23:10 M.Kasliwal M.Kasliwal DIS 23:25 01:10 N.Ule N.Ule ECHELLE 01:10 05:45 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW12/R 19:59 20:59 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 DD04/R 20:59 23:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.2 0 0 PU03/R 23:10 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 0 0 NM03/R 01:10 06:00 0 0 0 0 3.0 1.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Shugart We fought against some clouds that drove up seeing during the night, but remianed open. The weather continued to improve in the wee hours, and the night was productive. No pointing problems, or any other kind. Left darks running on Spicam, and DIS mounted for morning cals. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:56 APOLLO 750( 1490) 60 59 5.9 7.5 7.7 7.5 6.2 530nm 1.70 19:57 APOLLO 750( 1490) 60 59 5.8 7.5 7.7 7.5 6.2 530nm 1.50 21:21 tcamera 549( 691) 158 80 5.4 5.8 6.2 5.5 5.1 -- 1.23 23:33 dcamera 611( 482) 100 62 4.6 4.3 4.8 4.2 4.2 -- 1.12 01:15 ecamera 708( -464) 130 41 4.4 3.9 4.4 3.9 4.1 ND1 1.81 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 49 8 23 266 (W) 2456 clear none 17:00 46 8 18 280 (W) 2407 clear none 18:00 49 8 25 245 (WSW) 2443 clear none 19:00 46 9 19 262 (W) 2406 clear none 20:00 43 10 16 264 (W) 2350 mstly clr none 21:00 42 11 16 275 (W) 2155 ptly cldy none 22:00 41 18 12 334 (NNW) 1292 ptly cldy none 23:00 40 15 13 347 (NNW) 1203 ptly cldy none 00:00 40 14 8 331 (NNW) 1372 ptly cldy none 01:00 40 12 18 338 (NNW) 1432 ptly cldy none 02:00 40 10 13 5 (N) 1457 mstly clr none 03:00 40 11 11 42 (NE) 1580 mstly clr none 04:00 41 14 11 345 (NNW) 2003 clear none 05:00 41 13 11 338 (NNW) 2190 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