Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20151007 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 11:23:38 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, October 07, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Hughes J.Hughes SPICAM --:-- --:-- M.McElwain C.Grady GIFS --:-- --:-- INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- SU01/R 18:49 01:10 6.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DD04/O 01:10 06:54 2.0 3.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray Night started off by raining on an off. Clouds and high humidity continued throughout the night. We decided to end the night at 05:10. Tspec was opperating properly. We took this time to practice mounting DIS, GIFS, learning about GIFS ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 41 37 20 249 (WSW) 1355 cloudy rain 17:00 42 35 11 304 (NW) 309 cloudy rain 18:00 45 34 4 177 (S) 149 cloudy none 19:00 43 37 8 109 (ESE) 340 cloudy none 20:00 44 31 5 257 (WSW) 145 cloudy none 21:00 44 31 3 162 (SSE) 175 ptly cldy none 22:00 45 31 6 101 (E) 137 ptly cldy none 23:00 42 35 14 79 (E) 165 ptly cldy none 00:00 39 38 14 74 (ENE) 165 mstly cldy none 01:00 40 38 17 70 (ENE) 205 mstly cldy none 02:00 40 38 17 76 (ENE) 144 mstly cldy none 03:00 41 37 18 75 (ENE) 122 ptly cldy none 04:00 42 38 18 77 (ENE) 124 mstly clr none 05:00 44 36 11 82 (E) 148 mstly cldy 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: 1.0.4 Current TUI version: 2.4.0