Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20161115 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 13:05:22 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, November 15, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- D.Gies K.Lester ECHELLE 17:14 22:06 M.Hammergren K.Nault,M.Brucker ARCTIC 22:10 00:05 N.Chanover E.Dahl NAIC 00:20 05:40 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- GS03/R 17:10 22:10 0 0 0 0 1.3 3.7 0 0 AD02/R 22:10 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 0 0 NM01/R 00:10 06:26 0 0 0 0 0.0 6.3 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk Evening started out clear, dry and still. It remained clear and still for GS03. Same for AD02. For NM01, some high thin clouds rolled in at about 05:15, but they did not present a problem for observing. Overall, a good full night of data. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:27 ecamera 817( 47) -23 54 12.2 15.2 14.4 15.3 14.4 ND5 0.84 19:51 ecamera 652( -212) -15 36 12.8 13.1 13.0 12.6 12.7 ND4 0.93 23:17 arctic 669( 932) 0 58 12.4 12.0 12.5 11.9 12.0 4 0.68 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 56 24 1 184 (S) 757 clear none 17:00 55 20 6 8 (N) 325 clear none 18:00 54 18 7 16 (NNE) 162 clear none 19:00 53 11 2 8 (N) 103 clear none 20:00 54 12 3 351 (N) 94 clear none 21:00 56 21 4 182 (S) 258 clear none 22:00 53 22 8 169 (S) 407 clear none 23:00 53 22 5 205 (SSW) 486 clear none 00:00 53 17 5 184 (S) 652 clear none 01:00 53 11 6 215 (SW) 107 clear none 02:00 52 11 3 247 (WSW) 109 clear none 03:00 53 13 7 253 (WSW) 76 clear none 04:00 50 12 9 236 (SW) 72 clear none 05:00 50 14 8 246 (WSW) 133 mstly clr none 06:00 48 12 8 236 (SW) 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: 2.5.1