Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20160103 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 13:50:47 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, January 03, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Larson A.Larson SPICAM 17:50 23:10 M.Hammergren K.Nault,M.Brucker SPICAN 23:10 02:08 K.Kinemuchi K.Kinemuchi SPICAM 02:14 06:16 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW03/R 17:18 23:10 0 0 0 0 5.9 0.0 0 0 AD02/R 23:10 01:10 0 0 0 0 2.0 0.0 0 0 AD02/R/D 01:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 0.8 0.2 0 0 NM08/R/D 02:10 06:57 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan First half was clear with moderate seeing; second half was partly cloudy with good seeing. Everything worked pretty well. The observer for the scheduled second half program was unable to observe, so AD02 got one extra hour and NM08 got the remainder. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:46 SPIcam 541( 452) -29 48 3.3 4.9 4.5 5.0 4.0 r 0.00 17:50 SPIcam 576( 482) -30 48 3.3 4.8 4.5 4.9 3.9 r 1.29 02:26 SPIcam 550( 189) 128 71 -0.9 -0.1 0.5 -0.1 -0.5 V 0.82 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp C Dewp C MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 37 19 3 173 (S) 164 clear none 17:00 37 2 0 65 (ENE) 104 clear none 18:00 38 4 1 217 (SW) 86 clear none 19:00 34 13 4 191 (S) 117 clear none 20:00 35 10 8 126 (SE) 98 clear none 21:00 35 2 8 139 (SE) 101 clear none 22:00 33 -3 6 98 (E) 78 clear none 23:00 33 -5 11 118 (ESE) 86 clear none 00:00 34 -5 17 138 (SE) 69 mstly clr none 01:00 34 -12 17 148 (SSE) 49 mstly clr none 02:00 32 -13 17 152 (SSE) 49 ptly cldy none 03:00 30 -8 20 150 (SSE) 59 ptly cldy none 04:00 29 -7 24 133 (SE) 114 ptly cldy none 05:00 30 -10 21 133 (SE) 56 mstly clr none 06:00 29 -6 12 160 (SSE) 81 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: 1.2.2 Current TUI version: 2.5.0