Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150804 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 11:32:40 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, August 04, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- S.Liss S.Liss, J.Turner DIS 20:22 23:53 M.Hammergren K.Nault, M.Brucker SPICam 00:04 02:05 D.York D.York ECHELLE 02:07 05:25 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UV02/R 20:08 00:10 0 0 0 0 2.9 1.2 0 0 AD02/R 00:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 0 0 UC01/R 02:10 06:11 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Tspec corrupted during checkout, despite being happy earlier. Took darks throughout the night, and all were good. The weather was beautiful and calm, with great seeing throughout. No problems, and we were very productive. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:35 dcamera 205( 841) 1 73 19.3 22.3 21.8 22.2 22.2 -- 1.00 23:13 SPIcam 292( 912) -85 44 18.7 18.5 19.0 18.4 18.1 SDSS r 0.86 01:28 ecamera 214( -454) 131 83 18.3 17.3 17.8 17.1 16.9 Clear 0.86 03:35 ecamera 297( -353) 197 54 18.2 17.4 18.1 17.4 17.4 ND3 0.76 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 70 45 9 358 (N) 480 ptly cldy none 17:00 72 41 12 294 (WNW) 375 ptly cldy none 18:00 72 44 3 204 (SSW) 418 ptly cldy none 19:00 69 35 4 254 (WSW) 307 mstly clr none 20:00 67 33 2 265 (W) 295 mstly clr none 21:00 67 33 1 193 (SSW) 277 mstly clr none 22:00 67 33 6 193 (SSW) 272 clear none 23:00 66 35 2 216 (SW) 288 clear none 00:00 65 40 3 256 (WSW) 361 clear none 01:00 64 43 3 264 (W) 333 clear none 02:00 65 42 2 295 (WNW) 293 clear none 03:00 65 41 2 255 (WSW) 297 clear none 04:00 65 42 2 296 (WNW) 307 clear none 05:00 65 41 1 274 (W) 336 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: 2.4.0