Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150930 From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, September 30, 2015 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Pewett T.Pewett ECHELLE 17:15 00:06 M.Hammergren K.Nault, M.Brucker SPICam 00:09 02:01 K.Pan H.Yan, K.Pan ECHELLE 02:05 05:43 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 05:47 06:50 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- DD04/R 18:58 00:10 0 0 0 0 2.0 3.2 0 0 AD02/R 00:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 0 0 NM07/R 02:10 05:49 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.6 0 0 AP01/R 05:49 06:49 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: A.Bradley Triplespec is back to being corrupted. Took darks all night long. Had a bit of problematic clouds in the middle of the night. Otherwise things were productive, with good seeing. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:16 ecamera 445( -213) 2 74 15.7 17.4 17.4 16.9 16.4 ND1 0.64 23:18 SPIcam 400( 779) 302 33 13.7 13.4 14.0 13.2 13.1 SDSS r 1.50 01:13 ecamera 519( -334) 230 69 14.6 13.7 14.2 13.9 13.8 Clear 1.30 01:13 ecamera 519( -334) 230 69 14.6 13.7 14.2 13.9 13.8 Clear 1.30 04:50 APOLLO 344( 1416) -37 70 13.7 13.2 13.8 13.2 13.1 -- 1.40 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 66 39 9 218 (SW) 455 mstly clr none 17:00 68 40 8 223 (SW) 425 mstly clr none 18:00 64 37 5 252 (WSW) 463 mstly clr none 19:00 60 37 7 217 (SW) 475 mstly clr none 20:00 59 37 6 197 (SSW) 493 mstly clr none 21:00 58 37 6 165 (SSE) 462 clear none 22:00 59 36 10 181 (S) 916 clear none 23:00 57 35 13 172 (S) 396 clear none 00:00 56 35 8 166 (SSE) 387 clear none 01:00 58 35 8 183 (S) 383 ptly cldy none 02:00 58 35 7 183 (S) 336 ptly cldy none 03:00 58 33 7 186 (S) 332 ptly cldy none 04:00 57 34 8 186 (S) 327 clear none 05:00 57 35 7 182 (S) 329 clear none 06:00 56 36 6 186 (S) 348 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: 2.4.0