Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150507 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 12:31:40 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, May 07, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Bentz M.Bentz DIS 20:00 21:07 A.Ritchey A.Ritchey ECHELLE 21:10 00:03 M.Hammergren M.Brucker, K.Nault SPICAM 00:14 02:05 K.Pan H.Yan ECHELLE 02:08 04:55 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 04:57 05:57 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- GS01/R 19:58 21:08 0 0 0 0 1.2 0.0 0 0 UW10/R 21:08 00:10 0 0 0 0 2.1 1.0 0 0 AD02/R 00:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 0 0 NM09/O 02:10 05:01 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.8 0 0 AP01/O 05:01 06:01 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Clear all night with good to moderate seeing. Everything worked well except for the pressurization fans; dust was moderately high during second half, but did not necessitate closing. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21:18 ecamera 355( -551) 132 58 9.4 9.6 9.7 9.3 9.1 ND4 0.89 00:26 SPIcam 368( 634) -103 33 7.6 8.3 8.8 8.2 7.6 r 1.14 02:27 ecamera 388( -663) 63 67 6.1 6.8 7.4 6.8 6.3 ND1 0.85 04:58 APOLLO 275( 1172) -1 31 5.9 5.9 6.4 5.9 5.7 530 1.50 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 53 21 17 239 (WSW) 1446 clear none 17:00 54 21 22 226 (SW) 1869 clear none 18:00 55 21 14 252 (WSW) 2373 clear none 19:00 51 20 18 240 (WSW) 2062 clear none 20:00 48 19 18 222 (SW) 1793 clear none 21:00 49 16 16 207 (SSW) 1990 clear none 22:00 50 15 17 217 (SW) 2382 clear none 23:00 49 15 13 201 (SSW) 2195 clear none 00:00 47 15 14 254 (WSW) 2300 clear none 01:00 46 20 7 265 (W) 2089 clear none 02:00 45 24 10 268 (W) 2559 clear none 03:00 44 25 10 266 (W) 2935 clear none 04:00 44 25 14 254 (WSW) 2998 clear none 05:00 43 25 8 263 (W) 2781 clear none 06:00 42 25 8 264 (W) 2633 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