Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20161025 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:35:09 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, October 25, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- S.Anderson J.Ruan DIS 18:22 00:04 M.Hammergren K.Nault, M.Brucker ARCTIC 00:15 02:05 D.Bizyaev D.Bizyaev NICFPS 02:16 06:08 T.Murphy T.Murphy, R.McMillan APOLLO 06:14 07:08 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW03/R 18:27 00:10 0 0 0 0 5.7 0.0 0 0 AD02/R 00:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 2.0 0.0 0 0 NM07/O 02:10 06:08 0 0 0 0 1.4 2.6 0 0 AP01/R 06:08 07:08 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray The night started out beautiful! The storm has blown over and we started to a clear sky. We had good seeing all night and no problems except for the fact that Tspec aims to misbehave. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:56 dcamera 532( 656) -52 51 10.0 12.1 12.1 11.8 11.6 -- 1.16 23:22 arctic 692( 858) -4 49 10.6 10.0 10.5 9.9 9.9 SDSS-r 0.97 01:30 NICFPS 665( 1175) 265 62 11.0 10.0 10.5 9.9 10.1 MK-Ks 0.95 05:18 APOLLO 600( 1539) 88 30 10.1 10.0 10.8 10.2 10.2 553 1.80 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 56 33 5 271 (W) 762 mstly clr none 17:00 54 32 15 307 (NW) 652 mstly clr none 18:00 53 34 2 264 (W) 641 clear none 19:00 52 34 1 33 (NNE) 640 clear none 20:00 52 33 7 347 (NNW) 650 clear none 21:00 50 34 7 331 (NNW) 650 clear none 22:00 51 33 7 309 (NW) 610 clear none 23:00 52 34 8 299 (WNW) 670 clear none 00:00 51 34 2 262 (W) 588 clear none 01:00 51 33 1 232 (SW) 615 clear none 02:00 51 33 1 172 (S) 629 clear none 03:00 52 33 2 249 (WSW) 692 clear none 04:00 52 33 1 236 (SW) 702 clear none 05:00 51 34 3 293 (WNW) 678 clear none 06:00 51 34 1 340 (NNW) 693 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