Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20151103 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 12:35:18 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, November 03, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- G.Wallerstein C.Sakari ECHELLE 17:19 19:04 T.Wilkinson T.Wilkinson, S.Hawley DIS 19:06 23:04 B.Abel, K.Weisenburger M.Hammergren K.Nault, M.Brucker ARCTIC --:-- --:-- T.Harrison T.Harrison DIS 02:40 03:40 DIS 04:20 04:40 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW08/R 17:19 19:19 0 0 0 0 2.0 0.0 0 0 UW04/R 19:19 23:10 0 0 0 0 3.9 0.0 0 0 AD02/R 23:10 01:10 0.9 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 NM03/R 01:10 06:15 0.0 3.8 0 0 0 1.3 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky SPIcam failed to read out, timed out. 2015-11-03 23:28:04 APO.Jack-Obs1.spicamExpose 401 spicam w text="CCD READOUT FAILED -- timed out after 57.30 seconds. Read 0 of 2199552 bytes." 2015-11-03 23:28:04 APO.Jack-Obs1.spicamExpose 401 spicam i text="writing FITS file..." 2015-11-03 23:28:04 APO.Jack-Obs1.spicamExpose 401 spicam w text="FAILED to write the FITS file... CCDImage instance has no attribute 'data'" 2015-11-03 23:28:04 APO.Jack-Obs1.spicamExpose 401 spicam i text="done writing FITS files." 2015-11-03 23:28:04 APO.Jack-Obs1.spicamExpose 401 spicam i exposureState=done,0 2015-11-03 23:28:04 APO.Jack-Obs1.spicamExpose 401 spicam f text="FAILED bias readout -- see earlier warning(s) for details." I restarted the nubs then re-initialized and homed SPIcam. This seemed to fix the problem. I closed dome at 00:00 when I suddenly saw radar returns near us. We re-opened a couple times, just to have clouds move back in shortly after. We gave up at 05:00 with clouds and humidity rising. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:19 ecamera 558( -448) 64 53 3.4 10.4 10.3 10.4 10.1 ND4 1.10 17:31 ecamera 527( -520) 206 70 3.4 10.0 9.9 9.7 8.4 ND4 0.89 19:08 dcamera 370( 252) 238 54 3.4 7.4 7.9 7.0 7.0 -- 1.17 22:11 dcamera 439( 324) 239 24 3.4 6.9 7.5 7.0 7.0 -- 1.94 02:44 dcamera 490( 287) 192 69 3.4 5.9 6.4 6.1 5.5 -- 1.00 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 17 194 (SSW) 198 clear none 17:00 17 201 (SSW) 273 clear none 18:00 13 190 (S) 332 clear none 19:00 17 192 (SSW) 629 ptly cldy none 20:00 16 192 (SSW) 411 ptly cldy none 21:00 17 201 (SSW) 444 ptly cldy none 22:00 19 211 (SSW) 531 ptly cldy none 23:00 12 204 (SSW) 468 mstly cldy none 00:00 12 220 (SW) 573 cloudy none 01:00 19 220 (SW) 411 cloudy none 02:00 22 221 (SW) 375 ptly cldy none 03:00 16 216 (SW) 388 mstly cldy none 04:00 20 236 (SW) 450 mstly cldy none 05:00 22 225 (SW) 463 mstly cldy 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