Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20160129 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 13:53:03 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, January 29, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Wilkinson S.Hawley, P.Yoachim DIS 18:29 00:04 M.Hammergren K.Nault, M.Bruckner ARCTIC 00:30 02:09 R.Wyse G.Ruchti ECHELLE 02:13 06:30 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW05/R 17:41 00:10 0 0 0 0 5.2 1.3 0 0 AD02/R 00:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 0 0 JH01/R 02:10 06:51 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.7 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray Tspec working. Took 1500 darks. The night started mostly clear but clouds started rolling in a couple hours after sunset which cleared a couple hours later. Tessa Wilkinson observed as an untrained observer for UW05. No problems tonight. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:29 dcamera 415( 210) 1 77 4.0 5.9 5.9 5.7 5.1 -- 1.20 20:42 dcamera 456( 182) 324 72 4.7 4.5 5.1 4.5 4.5 -- 1.10 00:37 arctic 506( 421) 155 70 6.2 5.0 5.5 5.0 5.2 SDSS-r 0.80 02:20 ecamera 531( -745) -4 55 5.2 5.3 5.8 5.3 5.1 ND3 1.14 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 46 4 7 261 (W) mstly clr none 17:00 43 3 7 263 (W) mstly clr none 18:00 40 0 8 282 (WNW) ptly cldy none 19:00 40 4 8 280 (W) ptly cldy none 20:00 41 7 7 301 (WNW) ptly cldy none 21:00 42 6 2 217 (SW) mstly clr none 22:00 43 3 6 264 (W) clear none 23:00 43 3 14 313 (NW) clear none 00:00 43 6 16 322 (NW) clear none 01:00 43 7 16 302 (WNW) clear none 02:00 43 5 11 264 (W) clear none 03:00 41 9 14 266 (W) clear none 04:00 40 9 19 267 (W) clear none 05:00 39 3 17 266 (W) clear none 06:00 38 2 19 273 (W) 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: 1.2.2 Current TUI version: 2.5.0