Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150526 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 12:00:14 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, May 26, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Bentz M.Batiste DIS 19:50 21:16 A.Verbiscer A.Verbiscer SPICam 21:29 01:11 M.Hammergren M.Brucker,K.Nault SPICam 01:11 03:04 Z.Tsvetanov Z.Tsvetanov TSPEC 03:19 05:45 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- GS01/R 20:11 21:21 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.2 0 0 UV02/R 21:21 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.8 0 0 AD02/R 01:10 03:10 0 0 0 0 0.8 1.2 0 0 JH05/R 03:10 05:49 0 0 0 0 2.6 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley We had some thick clouds causing problems, for a few hours, but overall the night was productive with good seeing. No problems with tspec. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:22 dcamera 315( 707) 224 75 11.9 14.6 13.6 14.1 12.3 -- 1.11 20:42 SPIcam 349( 804) 5 49 11.9 12.5 12.5 12.1 11.9 SDSS r 0.87 02:21 tcamera 387( 796) 143 71 11.4 11.0 11.4 10.9 10.7 -- 0.94 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 64 30 11 262 (W) 267 mstly clr none 17:00 58 27 9 257 (WSW) 445 mstly clr none 18:00 59 28 7 259 (W) 620 mstly clr none 19:00 59 28 11 192 (SSW) 495 mstly clr none 20:00 53 25 7 232 (SW) 580 mstly clr none 21:00 53 25 8 197 (SSW) 669 mstly clr none 22:00 53 26 12 187 (S) 704 mstly clr none 23:00 54 20 9 191 (S) 658 ptly cldy none 00:00 54 21 7 245 (WSW) 725 mstly cldy none 01:00 54 19 9 274 (W) 822 ptly cldy none 02:00 54 19 8 267 (W) 841 clear none 03:00 51 20 8 232 (SW) 798 clear none 04:00 51 20 4 199 (SSW) 705 clear none 05:00 52 21 6 194 (SSW) 747 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