Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150406 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 13:02:42 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, April 06, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Hammergren M.Hammergren,K.Nault SPIcam 19:50 21:45 M.Hammergren M.Brucker,K.Nault DIS 21:55 02:10 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 02:15 03:05 J.McKeever J.McKeever Echelle 03:10 06:30 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- AD01/R 19:35 00:10 0 0 0 0 2.0 2.6 0 0 AD02/R 00:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 0 0 AP01/O 02:10 03:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 NM01/R 03:10 06:35 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.4 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Despite some strong winds in the late afternoon and clouds during the middle portion of the night, we were able to be open all night and mostly productive. Ecam got hung up once, quickly fixed by restarting nubs ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:22 SPIcam 453( 798) 77 66 9.0 10.7 10.3 10.4 9.2 i 0.83 22:00 dcamera 349( 456) 144 77 9.3 9.0 9.4 8.8 8.6 - 1.35 02:16 APOLLO 275( 1222) 23 45 7.6 7.3 7.9 7.3 7.2 530 1.20 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 25 258 (WSW) 1172 clear none 17:00 22 262 (W) 1866 clear none 18:00 22 265 (W) 1520 clear none 19:00 21 262 (W) 1246 clear none 20:00 16 254 (WSW) 1347 clear none 21:00 16 263 (W) 1097 clear none 22:00 12 265 (W) 1049 clear none 23:00 19 268 (W) 959 mstly clr none 00:00 18 250 (WSW) 943 ptly cldy none 01:00 17 260 (W) 969 ptly cldy none 02:00 16 255 (WSW) 988 ptly cldy none 03:00 14 263 (W) 1012 clear none 04:00 15 262 (W) 938 clear none 05:00 13 262 (W) 893 clear none 06:00 15 260 (W) 954 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: 2.3.3