Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140603 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 12:10:16 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, June 03, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Bentz M.Bentz DIS 19:35 21:15 N.Chanover A.McKay ECHELLE 21:18 01:06 P.Pattarakijwanich P.Pattarakijwanich, TSPEC 01:20 05:38 J.Green INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- GS04/R 20:16 21:16 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 NM01/R 21:16 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.8 3.2 0 0 PU07/R 01:10 05:47 0 0 0 0 4.6 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Night was a bit cloudy to begin with, but cleared up after a few hours. The rest was clear, and seeing was decent. Very productive night. No problems with telescope drives, and started a set of Spicam darks. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:37 dcamera 626( 1493) 23 82 22.2 23.9 23.2 23.2 22.2 -- 1.00 20:26 ecamera 700( 462) -100 57 21.8 22.6 22.7 22.2 21.9 ND2 0.79 00:27 tcamera 531( 1290) -47 69 18.0 17.8 18.3 17.5 17.5 -- 1.90 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 81 38 21 201 (SSW) 1063 mstly clr none 17:00 83 38 16 197 (SSW) 1059 mstly clr none 18:00 80 38 14 210 (SSW) 1192 ptly cldy none 19:00 75 34 20 229 (SW) 1190 ptly cldy none 20:00 72 31 8 234 (SW) 860 ptly cldy none 21:00 71 30 10 211 (SSW) 875 ptly cldy none 22:00 72 31 13 223 (SW) 887 mstly clr none 23:00 68 32 9 144 (SE) 1273 mstly clr none 00:00 64 46 20 132 (SE) 2390 clear none 01:00 64 44 14 131 (SE) 2013 clear none 02:00 65 41 11 154 (SSE) 2076 clear none 03:00 67 36 10 193 (SSW) 1181 clear none 04:00 65 34 11 178 (S) 1240 clear none 05:00 63 33 10 180 (S) 1079 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