Subject: Yearly weather reports from APO 3.5-m night logs: 1994-1996

From: richmond@astro.Princeton.EDU

Submitted: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 12:27:52 -0500 (EST)

Message number: 104 (previous: 103, next: 105 up: Index)

  Below are short summaries of the weather at APO, as recorded in
the APO 3.5-m Night Logs.  I thank the Observing Specialists 
for their faithful compilation of the logs, and the quick posting
to the APO WWW site.  

  Note that the seeing (which is actually the average of all values
from focus frames, reported in the logs) has been getting better
over the years ... 

                                     Michael Richmond

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       Annual weather statistics for APO 3.5-m: 1994
 
total number of nights is 157
 
here comes comes open/close 
  29 c
 128 o
 
here comes observing hours when enclosure was opened
-2.000000 0
0.000000 11 
2.000000 16 
4.000000 21 
6.000000 29 
8.000000 23 
10.000000 20 
12.000000 6 
14.000000 2 
16.000000 0
 
here comes photometric/not 
   4 d
 126 n
  27 y
 
here comes seeing 
0.000000 0
0.500000 0 
1.000000 6 
1.500000 37 
2.000000 13 
2.500000 8 
3.000000 5 
3.500000 1 
4.000000 0
 
fraction of nights the telescope opened, per month
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
0.00 0.00 0.25 0.93 0.85 0.90 0.83 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.73 0.77

 
       Annual weather statistics for APO 3.5-m: 1995
 
total number of nights is 311
 
here comes comes open/close 
  39 c
 272 o
 
here comes observing hours when enclosure was opened
-2.000000 0
0.000000 11 
2.000000 28 
4.000000 35 
6.000000 63 
8.000000 66 
10.000000 61 
12.000000 8 
14.000000 0
 
here comes photometric/not 
   2 d
 231 n
  78 y
 
here comes seeing 
0.000000 0
0.500000 0 
1.000000 35 
1.500000 142 
2.000000 59 
2.500000 13 
3.000000 3 
3.500000 1 
4.000000 1 
4.500000 0
 
fraction of nights the telescope opened, per month
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
0.71 0.82 0.97 1.00 1.00 0.89 0.90 0.74 0.90 1.00 1.00 0.70

 
       Annual weather statistics for APO 3.5-m: 1996
 
total number of nights is 299
 
here comes comes open/close 
  56 c
   1 n
 242 o
 
here comes observing hours when enclosure was opened
-2.000000 0
0.000000 19 
2.000000 26 
4.000000 27 
6.000000 64 
8.000000 47 
10.000000 52 
12.000000 7 
14.000000 0
 
here comes photometric/not 
 261 n
  38 y
 
here comes seeing 
0.000000 0
0.500000 0 
1.000000 64 
1.500000 130 
2.000000 25 
2.500000 6 
3.000000 0 
3.500000 2 
4.000000 0 
4.500000 0 
5.000000 0 
5.500000 1 
6.000000 0
 
fraction of nights the telescope opened, per month
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
0.87 0.82 0.75 0.86 1.00 0.70 0.84 0.71 0.83 0.75 1.00 0.00

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