Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20161021 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:10:25 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, October 21, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Klaene R.McMillan DIS 18:31 19:15 P.Gaulme J.McKeaver Echelle 19:15 01:13 V.Woolf V.Woolf Echelle 01:13 07:20 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN01/W/D 18:31 19:15 0 0 0 0 0.8 0 0 0 NM03/R 19:15 01:10 0 0 0 0 4.4 1.5 0 0 UW09/R 01:10 07:05 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.9 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Ecam was hung at checkout. restarting Nubs did not fix. Restarted camera. No problems the remainder of the night. We needed to pre-empt part of the first program tonight to do some on-sky engineering work with DIS. Around 03:40 NICFPS Front Bench temps started reporting crazy numbers (688.8K!). The rest of the instrument temperatures were reporting in spec and cold. Te error did not clear itself the remainder 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:22 ecamera 887( 29) 85 70 10.7 11.8 11.4 11.6 11.6 ND1 0.90 19:57 ecamera 751( -256) 247 58 10.7 10.6 11.0 10.3 10.3 ND1 0.95 00:18 ecamera 723( -459) 12 79 7.7 7.4 8.0 7.3 7.4 ND2 0.77 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 55 24 0 301 (WNW) 1350 clear none 17:00 53 31 4 60 (ENE) 1752 clear none 18:00 52 30 5 28 (NNE) 1637 clear none 19:00 52 24 5 357 (N) 1101 clear none 20:00 51 18 7 42 (NE) 860 clear none 21:00 52 14 5 357 (N) 463 clear none 22:00 51 12 1 184 (S) 863 clear none 23:00 48 19 7 180 (S) 914 clear none 00:00 46 25 12 179 (S) 1357 clear none 01:00 46 32 8 183 (S) 1249 clear none 02:00 46 36 8 186 (S) 1425 clear none 03:00 46 38 6 234 (SW) 1577 clear none 04:00 45 38 5 213 (SSW) 1531 clear none 05:00 45 38 3 245 (WSW) 1491 clear none 06:00 48 25 1 213 (SSW) 1054 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