Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150408 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 12:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, April 08, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Wang P.Du DIS 19:43 01:05 J.Wisniewski see below DIS 01:05 01:36 AGILE 01:38 03:51 Echelle 03:53 05:51 Agile 05:53 06:20 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- IH01/R 19:37 01:10 0 0 0 0 3.8 1.7 0 0 OU01/O 01:10 06:33 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.4 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley OU01 observers: John Wisinewski, Steven Silverberg, Evan Rich, Mike Malatesta, Kyra Dame, Tarryn Kahre, Matt Scheffler, Brandon Curd, Marcus Keil, Jodi Berdis, Xiaoxian Duan. We had strong winds and some rain drizzles in the afternoon. All of that cleared around sunset, and we had a productive night with moderate seeing. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:00 dcamera 426( 608) -35 54 9.3 10.2 10.1 10.2 9.3 -- 1.46 00:22 dcamera 327( 322) -57 51 6.3 6.5 7.0 6.5 6.3 -- 1.70 00:50 AGILE 400(-1687) 80 62 5.7 6.1 6.7 6.1 5.6 BG40 1.40 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 26 266 (W) 889 ptly cldy lt rain 17:00 27 267 (W) 1600 ptly cldy dust 18:00 27 259 (W) 1634 mstly clr dust 19:00 30 255 (WSW) 1283 clear none 20:00 24 268 (W) 1162 clear none 21:00 8 253 (WSW) 1349 clear none 22:00 8 264 (W) 1199 clear none 23:00 17 269 (W) 1369 clear none 00:00 19 252 (WSW) 1757 clear none 01:00 15 265 (W) 1791 clear none 02:00 13 285 (WNW) 2114 clear none 03:00 8 282 (WNW) 2107 clear none 04:00 16 313 (NW) 2276 clear none 05:00 15 270 (W) 2268 clear none 06:00 15 313 (NW) 2960 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