Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150324 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:41:37 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, March 24, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Wang P.Du DIS 19:25 00:01 M.Hammergren K.Nault,M.Brucker SPICam 00:11 02:05 C.Churchill G.Kacprzak DIS 02:14 02:32 DIS 04:32 06:30 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- IH01/R 19:26 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.7 0 0 AD02/R 00:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 1.9 0.1 0 0 NM04/R 02:10 06:52 2.0 0 0 0 2.7 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley The night was beautiful, except for one small bit of cloud that had radar returns in it which forced us closed. Other than that, everything went well and it was a productive night. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:43 dcamera 446( 644) -1 59 8.4 10.6 10.3 10.6 8.8 -- 1.14 23:24 SPIcam 384( 598) -68 34 7.4 7.3 7.8 7.5 7.4 SDSS r 1.40 01:27 dcamera 326( 315) 39 81 6.7 6.7 7.2 6.8 6.6 -- 1.20 03:42 dcamera 326( 285) -80 65 5.9 6.0 6.6 6.2 5.8 -- 1.80 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 6 255 (WSW) 693 clear none 17:00 11 235 (SW) 717 clear none 18:00 9 228 (SW) 779 clear none 19:00 18 271 (W) 728 clear none 20:00 17 262 (W) 709 clear none 21:00 16 264 (W) 748 clear none 22:00 16 267 (W) 764 clear none 23:00 13 264 (W) 756 clear none 00:00 17 279 (W) 785 clear none 01:00 11 267 (W) 772 ptly cldy none 02:00 19 294 (WNW) 756 mstly cldy none 03:00 11 269 (W) 804 cloudy none 04:00 12 274 (W) 918 cloudy none 05:00 19 266 (W) 941 clear none 06:00 15 272 (W) 969 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: 1.0.4 Current TUI version: 2.3.2