Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150401 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 12:50:08 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, April 01, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Wang P.Du DIS 17:30 23:08 M.Hammergren M.Brucker,K.Nault SPICam 23:19 01:06 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 01:09 02:00 J.Jackiewicz J.Molenda-Zakowicz ECHELLE 02:02 06:25 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- IH01/R 19:32 23:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.6 0 0 AD02/R 23:10 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 0 0 AP01/R 01:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 NM02/R 02:10 06:42 0 0 0 0 0.8 3.7 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Some spotty clouds to begin with, and occasional high winds. But overall, the night was productive with decent seeing. No problems to report. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:48 dcamera 450( 677) -18 58 9.5 11.1 10.9 11.1 9.9 -- 1.46 22:32 SPIcam 361( 618) 272 31 8.2 8.1 8.6 8.2 8.1 SDSS r 2.10 00:13 APOLLO 275( 1199) -41 67 7.3 7.3 7.9 7.3 7.0 -- 1.50 01:11 ecamera 421( -599) -157 44 7.2 7.0 7.4 7.0 7.0 ND2 0.90 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 20 258 (WSW) 1078 mstly clr none 17:00 16 267 (W) 1020 ptly cldy none 18:00 27 257 (WSW) 1145 mstly clr none 19:00 28 265 (W) 1052 mstly clr none 20:00 22 265 (W) 1016 ptly cldy none 21:00 16 266 (W) 1158 clear none 22:00 23 277 (W) 1053 clear none 23:00 20 272 (W) 924 clear none 00:00 22 274 (W) 872 clear none 01:00 20 265 (W) 913 clear none 02:00 16 263 (W) 792 clear none 03:00 16 263 (W) 847 clear none 04:00 16 282 (WNW) 943 clear none 05:00 18 271 (W) 913 clear none 06:00 20 288 (WNW) 996 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