Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150506 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 10:34:46 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, May 06, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Bentz M.Batiste DIS 19:55 21:08 J.Wang P.Du DIS 21:08 23:54 E.Agol B.Morris Agile 23:57 00:08 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- GS01/R 19:57 21:07 0 0 0 0 1.2 0.0 0 0 IH01/R 21:07 00:00 0 0 0 0 1.2 1.7 0 0 UW01/R 00:00 06:02 0 6.1 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley First half was beautiful with great seeing. Towards midnight, some threatening clouds rolled in, and we closed. We gave up at 4:15 when the clouds had not cleared yet. I took triplespec darks all night long. I did not see any failures. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:25 dcamera 423( 619) 160 79 9.2 10.8 10.4 10.4 9.0 -- 0.96 20:13 dcamera 357( 500) 206 78 9.5 9.7 9.8 9.4 9.2 -- 0.94 23:11 AGILE 307(-1603) 119 30 9.1 8.7 9.1 8.5 8.4 SDSS r 1.38 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 54 32 18 182 (S) 1208 mstly clr none 17:00 54 24 21 236 (SW) 1014 clear none 18:00 52 23 21 205 (SSW) 844 clear none 19:00 51 26 13 210 (SSW) 1185 clear none 20:00 48 23 15 215 (SW) 1323 clear none 21:00 49 24 11 202 (SSW) 1598 clear none 22:00 49 22 12 221 (SW) 1536 clear none 23:00 49 21 11 252 (WSW) 1651 clear none 00:00 48 16 10 275 (W) 1321 ptly cldy none 01:00 48 12 9 267 (W) 1117 ptly cldy none 02:00 47 12 7 279 (W) 1074 ptly cldy none 03:00 46 11 11 283 (WNW) 847 ptly cldy none 04:00 45 11 9 267 (W) 929 ptly cldy 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