Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150510 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 11:51:56 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, May 10, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Bentz M.Batiste DIS 20:10 21:08 A.Ritchey A.Ritchey ECHELLE 21:12 00:00 M.Hammergren M.Brucker,K.Nault SPICam 00:12 02:08 H.Weaver Y.Fernandez,C.Lisse SPICam 02:12 05:50 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- GS01/R 20:00 21:10 0 0 0 0 1.2 0.0 0 0 UW10/R 21:10 00:10 0 0 0 0 3.0 0.0 0 0 AD02/R 00:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 1.4 0.6 0 0 JH02/R 02:10 05:59 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Clear all night, moderate to good seeing. No significant problems although we did have one hangp of dcam and one of ecam. Both recovered nicely when I restarted nubs with negligible time loss. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:23 dcamera 457( 551) 173 80 6.8 8.7 7.8 8.2 6.8 - 1.48 21:25 ecamera 380( -646) 134 61 6.6 7.2 7.2 6.8 6.3 ND4 1.15 00:22 SPIcam 396( 562) -103 35 6.6 6.4 6.9 6.3 6.2 r 0.80 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 51 14 10 264 (W) 562 clear none 17:00 48 16 13 271 (W) 534 clear none 18:00 51 15 11 262 (W) 558 clear none 19:00 48 14 8 263 (W) 623 clear none 20:00 44 14 12 238 (WSW) 643 clear none 21:00 44 10 10 209 (SSW) 637 clear none 22:00 45 8 10 215 (SW) 678 clear none 23:00 45 9 13 215 (SW) 772 clear none 00:00 44 10 10 221 (SW) 757 clear none 01:00 43 14 8 208 (SSW) 701 clear none 02:00 42 15 8 184 (S) 688 clear none 03:00 43 12 3 186 (S) 669 clear none 04:00 45 14 2 261 (W) 682 clear none 05:00 44 15 1 211 (SSW) 691 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