Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150304 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 13:26:50 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, March 04, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Klaene A.Bradley, R.McMillan X --:-- --:-- INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN01/W 18:11 06:18 0 12.1 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Lots of fog and high humidity. Once the humidity dropped, I found lots of ice on the catwalk. As there was only an hour left until twilight, we decided not to risk it. See engineering email for details. Zeroed NA2 rotator Reset axes controllers Checked and adjusted DIS focus Ran TCC 1.0.7 Caused a TCC command collision (by accident) Tested Jack's rotator slew problem Tested the axis init infinite loop problem (no problems) Updated Shack-Hartmann computer New mask files ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 -3 -5 8 324 (NW) 408 cloudy snow 17:00 -2 -5 3 262 (W) 412 cloudy humid 18:00 -2 -5 9 278 (W) 334 cloudy none 19:00 -3 -5 2 286 (WNW) 303 cloudy humid 20:00 -3 -6 6 308 (NW) 360 ptly cldy humid 21:00 -4 -6 9 292 (WNW) 384 ptly cldy humid 22:00 -4 -5 7 279 (W) 319 mstly clr humid 23:00 -4 -5 10 289 (WNW) 313 mstly clr fog 00:00 -4 -5 12 305 (NW) 63613 clear fog 01:00 -5 -6 9 316 (NW) 2598 clear fog 02:00 -5 -6 7 322 (NW) 1381 clear fog 03:00 -7 -8 23 17 (NNE) 285 clear humid 04:00 -7 -10 16 27 (NNE) 356 clear humid 05:00 -7 -15 14 16 (NNE) 388 clear none 06:00 -6 -15 1 331 (NNW) 382 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: 2.3.2