Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20161027 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 12:53:21 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, October 27, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Roberts J.Roberts NICFPS 18:20 23:32 M.Hammergren K.Nault, M.Brucker DIS 23:45 02:10 M.Hammergren K.Nault, M.Brucker DIS 02:10 06:27 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- CU03/R 18:25 23:40 0 0 0 0 5.2 0.0 0 0 AD02/R 23:40 02:10 0 0 0 0 2.5 0.0 0 0 AD01/R 02:10 07:10 0 0 0 0 3.2 1.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray The night starrted out with some clouds but amazing seeing! The seeing stayed good all night but there were high thin clouds that wouldn't go away. Tspec was misbehaving so I left it in a corner and shut it off for 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:44 NICFPS 732( 1459) 57 33 10.5 13.8 12.9 13.1 13.0 MK-H 0.67 22:54 dcamera 707( 680) 16 57 9.2 9.2 9.7 9.2 9.5 -- 1.06 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 58 35 8 234 (SW) 1486 mstly clr none 17:00 59 34 7 240 (WSW) 1409 mstly clr none 18:00 53 32 5 257 (WSW) 1706 mstly clr none 19:00 51 30 3 192 (SSW) 1836 mstly clr none 20:00 51 25 7 177 (S) 831 mstly clr none 21:00 50 24 8 154 (SSE) 643 ptly cldy none 22:00 50 24 7 164 (SSE) 652 mstly cldy none 23:00 48 31 9 149 (SSE) 819 mstly cldy none 00:00 50 30 10 181 (S) 770 mstly cldy none 01:00 50 32 15 189 (S) 1042 ptly cldy none 02:00 49 31 13 197 (SSW) 1050 mstly clr none 03:00 49 32 14 200 (SSW) 1092 mstly clr none 04:00 49 33 15 207 (SSW) 1061 mstly clr none 05:00 48 37 14 216 (SW) 1195 ptly cldy none 06:00 47 37 18 219 (SW) 1034 mstly cldy 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