Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20151027 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:14:51 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, October 27, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Klaene A.Bradley,R.McMillan X 16:30 04:11 C.Gray C.Gray ECHELLE 04:15 07:00 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN01/W 18:26 04:00 0 0 0 0 0.3 9.2 0 0 NM04/R 04:00 07:09 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.1 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Had patchy clouds but decent seeing. Zeroed the rotator, and reset axis controllers. Checked DIS focus (will adjust tomorrow). Adjusted alt vs focus model. Tested filter vs focus for ARCTIC. 50 point high altitude pointing model, implemented. The only thing left is ARCTIC standards. We found a weird bug in the ARCTIC config window. When commanding the filter through the GUI, the status on the left (and the headers) is one command behind the pull down menu. Homing or commanding through the command line does weird things to this, but after one or two moves it comes back to this state. Tspec started the night in a bad state, but by the end had fixed itself. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:17 dcamera 487( 394) 81 74 8.6 8.0 8.4 7.9 7.9 -- 1.03 18:34 dcamera 502( 402) 76 77 8.4 7.9 8.3 7.9 7.8 -- 1.02 18:52 dcamera 496( 394) 68 81 8.4 7.9 8.3 7.9 7.9 -- 1.19 19:01 guider 587( 635) 62 82 8.1 7.9 8.3 8.0 7.9 Clear 2.00 22:04 arctic 527( 562) 266 57 7.4 7.4 7.9 7.5 7.3 SDSS r 1.20 01:29 guider 600( 596) 151 66 7.2 6.8 7.2 6.9 6.9 Clear 1.07 03:20 ecamera 523( -645) 88 21 6.9 6.5 7.0 6.7 6.5 ND2 1.35 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 48 26 17 305 (NW) 319 clear none 17:00 47 23 18 312 (NW) 299 clear none 18:00 47 22 13 304 (NW) 295 clear none 19:00 48 20 20 304 (NW) 266 clear none 20:00 47 21 20 301 (WNW) 268 ptly cldy none 21:00 47 19 17 304 (NW) 265 ptly cldy none 22:00 46 16 17 333 (NNW) 240 ptly cldy none 23:00 46 12 9 347 (NNW) 248 mstly clr none 00:00 45 8 8 342 (NNW) 187 mstly clr none 01:00 45 10 11 353 (N) 175 mstly clr none 02:00 45 8 18 18 (NNE) 199 clear none 03:00 45 6 22 14 (NNE) 271 mstly clr none 04:00 44 11 23 23 (NNE) 266 mstly clr none 05:00 45 2 15 14 (NNE) 207 mstly clr none 06:00 42 5 18 25 (NNE) 221 mstly clr 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