Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150204 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 13:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, February 04, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Bary J.Bary, W.Cauley TSPEC 17:20 20:08 ECHELLE 20:09 21:33 TSPEC 21:35 23:45 J.Wang P.Du DIS 23:55 06:05 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NA02/R 17:47 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.8 5.6 0 0 IH01/R 00:10 06:47 0 0 0 0 0.0 6.6 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley We had a few spots of fairly thick clouds, but overall beautiful night. Decent seeing, and 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:53 tcamera 677( 863) 64 63 10.0 6.5 5.9 6.4 5.2 -- 1.30 20:13 ecamera 390( -762) -19 74 10.0 4.9 5.3 4.8 4.7 Clear 0.90 21:41 tcamera 446( 540) -35 47 10.0 4.4 4.8 4.3 4.2 -- 1.40 00:03 dcamera 332( 167) 125 68 10.0 3.6 4.2 3.7 3.6 -- 1.20 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 6 -6 7 25 (NNE) 241 clear none 17:00 6 -7 7 63 (ENE) 181 clear none 18:00 5 -9 18 50 (NE) 183 clear none 19:00 5 -8 20 42 (NE) 219 clear none 20:00 5 -7 8 25 (NNE) 232 mstly clr none 21:00 5 -7 6 337 (NNW) 215 ptly cldy none 22:00 4 -7 5 14 (NNE) 268 mstly cldy none 23:00 4 -7 9 3 (N) 275 clear none 00:00 4 -6 14 343 (NNW) 261 clear none 01:00 4 -6 1 306 (NW) 301 clear none 02:00 4 -6 9 356 (N) 244 clear none 03:00 4 -6 10 5 (N) 327 mstly clr none 04:00 3 -7 11 4 (N) 306 ptly cldy none 05:00 3 -8 13 340 (NNW) 258 clear none 06:00 4 -11 8 21 (NNE) 204 mstly clr 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: 2.3.2