Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150106 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 13:29:57 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, January 06, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- P.Gaulme K.Kinemuchi, P.Gaulme Agile 16:45 19:53 E.Friel J.Overbeek ECHELLE 19:56 23:17 M.Hammergren M.Hammergren, K.Nault SPICam 23:29 01:09 M.Brucker J.Wang P.Du DIS 01:17 06:20 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM07/R 17:21 20:01 0 0 0 0 1.5 1.1 0 0 DD01/R 20:01 23:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.2 0 0 AD02/R 23:10 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 0 0 IH01/R 01:10 06:58 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.7 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Night was clear with beautiful (but variable) seeing. The Agile rotator behaved noramlly, and afternoon tspec images were not corrupted. Otherwise, the night was very productive. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:47 AGILE 287(-1586) -44 36 6.3 9.6 8.9 9.1 7.4 SDSS i 1.30 20:06 ecamera 285( -731) 50 71 8.1 7.6 7.7 7.4 7.5 ND3 0.74 23:36 SPIcam 316( 523) -83 37 8.1 7.3 7.9 7.1 7.6 SDSS r 1.50 01:27 dcamera 272( 303) 149 72 8.3 7.5 8.3 7.5 7.9 -- 1.07 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 48 19 2 257 (WSW) 29 clear none 17:00 46 20 5 350 (N) 12 clear none 18:00 44 20 8 344 (NNW) 7 clear none 19:00 45 20 8 349 (N) 13 clear none 20:00 45 23 9 3 (N) 9 clear none 21:00 48 19 10 3 (N) 17 clear none 22:00 44 18 9 348 (NNW) 7 clear none 23:00 48 15 7 359 (N) 12 clear none 00:00 46 16 7 359 (N) 8 clear none 01:00 47 20 5 17 (NNE) 11 clear none 02:00 46 15 1 196 (SSW) 1 clear none 03:00 45 18 5 199 (SSW) 7 clear none 04:00 46 19 5 199 (SSW) 11 clear none 05:00 44 23 0 216 (SW) 8 clear none 06:00 42 22 13 80 (E) 18 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: 2.3.2