Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150509 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 11:56:06 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, May 09, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Bentz M.Bentz DIS 19:59 21:09 J.Wang P.Du DIS 21:09 01:10 J.Borish J.Borish DIS 01:10 06:20 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- GS01/R 19:59 21:09 0 0 0 0 1.2 0.0 0 0 IH01/R 21:09 01:10 0 0 0 0 3.7 0.3 0 0 UV08/R 01:10 06:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky TSPEC images looked fine at checkout, tcam images still corrupted (Leach controller has not been reset). Power cycled and restarted, tcamera works correctly now. The grating set 2 was off +/- 30 steps, homed dis, fixed problem. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:19 dcamera 516( 494) 165 79 4.7 6.5 5.8 6.2 5.0 -- 1.30 20:17 dcamera 400( 302) 54 67 4.0 4.9 5.0 4.6 4.0 -- 1.30 00:16 dcamera 398( 234) 5 63 3.7 3.6 4.1 3.7 3.5 -- 1.45 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 47 7 21 257 (WSW) 1093 clear none 17:00 48 8 26 250 (WSW) 1136 clear none 18:00 46 6 23 267 (W) 989 clear none 19:00 44 4 27 246 (WSW) 915 clear none 20:00 41 5 23 268 (W) 885 clear none 21:00 40 8 14 264 (W) 862 clear none 22:00 39 10 16 283 (WNW) 968 clear none 23:00 39 9 13 301 (WNW) 942 clear none 00:00 39 5 20 302 (WNW) 668 clear none 01:00 39 9 16 308 (NW) 818 clear none 02:00 39 9 10 328 (NNW) 825 clear none 03:00 37 8 18 313 (NW) 805 clear none 04:00 37 10 19 322 (NW) 740 clear none 05:00 37 10 23 302 (WNW) 781 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