Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20151015 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, October 15, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Huehnerhoff J.Huehnerhoff,R.McMillan ARCTIC 18:52 00:10 D.Bizyaev D.Bizyaev NICFPS --:-- --:-- INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN02/W 18:39 01:10 1.0 0 0 0 3.6 1.9 0 0 NM07/O 01:10 07:00 5.8 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley We started the night with some patchy clouds, and got a bit of good science out of it. We took data for Karen Kinemuchi and Joanne Hughes. When the storms got closer we closed, and did Joe's linearity test in SDSS r'. With high humidity and heavy clouds, we called it quits at 04:30. Tspec giving corrupted images. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:13 arctic 125( 883) 207 38 13.3 17.1 17.1 17.0 17.0 SDSS i 0.89 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 65 39 6 224 (SW) 600 ptly cldy none 17:00 64 37 6 252 (WSW) 584 mstly clr none 18:00 61 35 2 234 (SW) 552 mstly clr none 19:00 57 36 6 121 (ESE) 555 mstly clr none 20:00 55 35 10 112 (ESE) 602 mstly clr none 21:00 55 35 11 114 (ESE) 603 ptly cldy none 22:00 55 37 16 124 (SE) 510 ptly cldy none 23:00 54 38 18 110 (ESE) 610 ptly cldy humid 00:00 54 39 19 117 (ESE) 606 cloudy none 01:00 49 40 24 80 (E) 865 cloudy none 02:00 45 41 35 73 (ENE) 1789 cloudy none 03:00 44 41 21 82 (E) 1924 cloudy none 04:00 44 40 22 83 (E) 1982 cloudy humid 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