Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140902 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 12:20:54 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, September 02, 2014 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- N.Chanover A.McKay ECHELLE 19:15 01:04 J.Lutz J.Lutz, C.Doughty DIS 01:05 06:10 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM02/R 19:35 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.4 5.2 0 0 UW09/R 01:10 06:31 0 0 0 0 5.3 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Echelle interorder light-- 09/03/2014 00:13:13 /Users/alaina/TUI-Images/Q3APO/UT140903/echelle_redflat.0001.fits Mean Bias: 1266.659 Shift: 15, -14 Max Found: 29495.0 Min Found: 4716.0 Max/Min Row: 460, 456 Interorder Light: 8.184 The night was beautiful, with great seeing. Overall successful night. Had some guiding troubles on ecam, and suspect the mask. I will make a fresh one today. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:46 ecamera 364( 146) 122 57 19.3 23.0 22.2 22.6 20.4 ND1 1.10 00:16 dcamera 79( 624) 328 53 18.2 17.3 17.8 17.1 17.3 -- 1.11 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 73 35 4 255 (WSW) 543 clear none 17:00 76 37 6 260 (W) 552 clear none 18:00 73 38 12 254 (WSW) 622 clear none 19:00 70 35 8 227 (SW) 534 clear none 20:00 66 30 12 181 (S) 377 clear none 21:00 65 30 11 149 (SSE) 406 clear none 22:00 65 33 14 114 (ESE) 751 clear none 23:00 64 34 14 150 (SSE) 656 clear none 00:00 64 33 6 175 (S) 780 clear none 01:00 65 33 8 146 (SE) 880 clear none 02:00 66 31 7 182 (S) 779 clear none 03:00 61 36 4 174 (S) 982 clear none 04:00 64 33 7 161 (SSE) 966 clear none 05:00 62 34 13 151 (SSE) 950 clear none 06:00 62 32 9 171 (S) 711 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: 2.3.0