Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20161014 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 13:27:25 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, October 14, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- D.Gies Z.Guo ECHELLE 18:50 00:04 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 00:11 01:04 K.Allers K.Allers NICFPS 01:22 06:59 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- GS03/R 18:39 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.5 0 0 AP01/R 00:10 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 NA01/R 01:10 06:59 0 0 0 0 0.5 5.3 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk The night started clear and calm, and remained that way through dawn...low humidity and good seeing. Perfect night. Tspec failed on checkout, nicfps was used as the instrument for the NA01 block. Tspec Leach controller was left powered off at the end of the night. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01:51 dcamera 673( 725) 15 57 10.2 10.8 11.2 10.9 10.7 - 1.82 00:10 APOLLO 594( 1559) -23 71 12.0 11.3 11.8 11.2 11.4 530 1.10 01:37 NICFPS 727( 1308) -29 79 12.1 11.5 12.0 11.6 11.6 J 0.70 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 60 26 11 224 (SW) 557 clear none 17:00 59 28 13 263 (W) 759 clear none 18:00 57 27 11 259 (W) 854 clear none 19:00 54 24 11 259 (W) 872 clear none 20:00 54 24 13 260 (W) 731 clear none 21:00 54 26 15 234 (SW) 765 clear none 22:00 54 24 12 231 (SW) 582 clear none 23:00 54 23 9 234 (SW) 517 clear none 00:00 52 21 10 243 (WSW) 448 clear none 01:00 54 20 10 264 (W) 469 clear none 02:00 51 21 10 245 (WSW) 519 clear none 03:00 53 19 11 246 (WSW) 513 clear none 04:00 54 19 12 263 (W) 492 clear none 05:00 54 20 13 261 (W) 543 clear none 06:00 53 19 10 248 (WSW) 514 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: 2.5.1