Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20161119 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 13:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, November 19, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- B.Menard B.Menard+students Agile 17:10 17:30 ARCTIC 17:37 02:10 DIS 02:25 05:15 M.Skrutskie M.Skrutskie TripleSpec 05:27 06:25 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- JH03/R 17:08 05:31 0 0 0 0 5.4 7.0 0 0 UV04/R 05:31 06:30 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan We had clear skies and excellent seeing first half, patchy thin clouds and moderate seeing second half. Triplespec was not giving proper spectra but we were able to use the slitviewer for photometry of an Io eclipse. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:56 arctic 800( 811) 24 56 6.2 7.0 7.0 6.8 6.6 SDSS-r 0.57 02:30 dcamera 752( 538) 121 40 7.6 5.3 5.9 5.5 6.0 - 1.44 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 47 21 16 219 (SW) 939 clear none 17:00 43 20 8 189 (S) 995 clear none 18:00 43 18 7 184 (S) 712 clear none 19:00 44 23 10 194 (SSW) 514 clear none 20:00 42 25 11 198 (SSW) 709 clear none 21:00 42 26 15 205 (SSW) 528 clear none 22:00 41 25 12 221 (SW) 806 mstly clr none 23:00 40 25 11 225 (SW) 817 ptly cldy none 00:00 40 25 8 255 (WSW) 949 ptly cldy none 01:00 43 19 13 292 (WNW) 632 ptly cldy none 02:00 45 15 10 284 (WNW) 223 ptly cldy none 03:00 46 12 11 289 (WNW) 225 ptly cldy none 04:00 44 14 9 274 (W) 379 ptly cldy none 05:00 44 14 14 284 (WNW) 234 ptly cldy none 06:00 42 21 11 271 (W) 768 ptly 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