Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140625 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:35:21 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, June 25, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Bentz M.Bentz DIS 19:40 21:24 N.Ule N.Ule ECHELLE 21:26 01:08 S.Ballard S.Ballard TSPEC 01:30 05:30 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- GS04/R 20:24 21:24 0 0 0 0 1.0 0.0 0 0 NM03/R 21:24 01:10 0 0 0 0 3.8 0.0 0 0 UW13/R 01:10 05:48 0 0 0 0 4.3 0.3 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Night was clear and productive, with pockets of bad seeing. Seeing was good overall. Filled GIFS at 05:05. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:48 dcamera 568( 1196) -72 70 15.8 19.2 18.6 19.2 16.4 -- 2.21 20:35 ecamera 499( 35) 118 40 17.4 17.7 17.5 17.2 16.1 Clear 1.39 00:39 tcamera 630( 1282) 200 81 16.5 15.8 16.3 15.8 15.8 -- 0.90 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 73 33 29 240 (WSW) 967 ptly cldy none 17:00 73 34 24 241 (WSW) 967 ptly cldy none 18:00 73 32 20 264 (W) 967 ptly cldy none 19:00 71 37 18 233 (SW) 967 mstly clr none 20:00 63 49 2 195 (SSW) 967 mstly clr none 21:00 62 46 8 187 (S) 967 clear none 22:00 63 42 12 164 (SSE) 967 clear none 23:00 59 44 16 152 (SSE) 967 clear none 00:00 63 41 17 197 (SSW) 967 clear none 01:00 62 41 14 198 (SSW) 967 clear none 02:00 62 41 10 186 (S) 967 clear none 03:00 60 42 7 206 (SSW) 967 clear none 04:00 58 43 6 186 (S) 967 clear none 05:00 58 44 9 220 (SW) 967 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