Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150305 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 13:15:29 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, March 05, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Klaene J.Dembicky, R.McMillan X 18:12 06:17 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN01/W 18:12 06:17 0 0 0 0 0.0 12.1 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Engineering Tasks completed Echelle IOL 100 point Pointing Model Pointing spot checks on NA2 looked good DIS focus (Dis slitviewer vs. camera/spectra) Blue Best spectral Focus +75??? Red Best spectral Focus +75??? Shack-Hartmann collimation, collimation adjusted Pointing check on NA1. It appeared we had some sort of camera problem with Agile, blank images like a dark. I checked things and rebooted the camera, cycled mirror covers, eyelid. Finally slewed to a new field (the one I was tracking on transited) and suddenly a star appeared. No idea if the corredinates were just bad or what was going on (I had tried a couple stars). The rotator also halted for some reason while I was dealing with the camera issue. A slew fixed the rotator. Tracking tests Detailed engineering report sent to 3.5m engineers. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:39 guider 541( 422) 189 70 -1.1 1.6 1.0 2.1 -0.4 R 0.96 22:01 dcamera 337( -42) 124 67 -0.2 -0.6 -0.2 -0.5 -0.3 -- 1.50 22:36 dcamera 360( -16) 131 72 0.1 -0.5 -0.0 -0.4 -0.2 -- 1.30 23:02 dcamera 358( -14) 141 76 -0.1 -0.4 0.1 -0.2 -0.1 -- 1.45 23:43 shack 533( 723) 238 59 -0.3 -0.3 0.2 -0.2 -0.2 -- 1.60 01:40 AGILE 333(-2085) 129 85 0.1 -0.3 0.2 -0.3 -0.1 SDSS r 1.40 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 0 -5 2 264 (W) 176 clear none 17:00 0 -5 6 287 (WNW) 204 clear none 18:00 -1 -13 4 3 (N) 289 clear none 19:00 -1 -25 14 22 (NNE) 142 clear none 20:00 -1 -24 15 32 (NNE) 137 clear none 21:00 0 -22 20 30 (NNE) 385 clear none 22:00 0 -22 23 21 (NNE) 405 clear none 23:00 0 -19 17 22 (NNE) 425 clear none 00:00 0 -21 16 70 (ENE) 501 clear none 01:00 0 -22 14 80 (E) 509 clear none 02:00 0 -21 11 78 (ENE) 539 clear none 03:00 -1 -20 14 68 (ENE) 583 clear none 04:00 -1 -20 11 79 (E) 595 clear none 05:00 -1 -22 6 90 (E) 786 clear none 06:00 0 -23 7 110 (ESE) 904 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