Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20160206 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 13:17:30 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, February 06, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.McElwain C.Grady GIFS 17:44 23:00 M.Hammergren K.Nault, M.Brucker ARCTIC 23:25 01:04 B.Keeney B.Keeney DIS 01:21 06:00 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- DD01/R 17:49 23:10 0 0 0 0 5.4 0.0 0 0 AD02/R 23:10 01:10 0 0 0 0 2.0 0.0 0 0 CU09/R 01:10 06:45 0 0 0 0 4.8 0.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray Tspec good. The night started off clear and with sub-arcsec seeing. However, clouds rolled in around 21:00 and remained off and on through out the night. No problems to report. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:40 GIFS 536( 311) 37 74 2.7 2.6 2.9 2.5 2.1 red_ifs 0.70 19:58 GIFS 536( 271) -35 74 1.4 1.8 2.2 1.6 1.6 red_ifs 0.81 23:23 arctic 511( 192) -87 72 0.3 0.7 1.3 0.8 0.4 SDSS-r 1.20 01:26 dcamera 545( 70) 170 80 2.4 0.7 0.9 0.6 1.3 -- 1.26 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 37 -5 6 334 (NNW) clear none 17:00 37 -7 4 343 (NNW) clear none 18:00 37 -10 10 3 (N) clear none 19:00 36 -5 10 351 (N) clear none 20:00 35 -2 8 1 (N) clear none 21:00 35 -1 6 321 (NW) mstly clr none 22:00 35 1 17 342 (NNW) ptly cldy none 23:00 34 0 15 343 (NNW) mstly clr none 00:00 33 2 13 358 (N) mstly clr none 01:00 35 4 23 326 (NW) mstly clr none 02:00 34 4 13 324 (NW) mstly clr none 03:00 36 1 17 324 (NW) ptly cldy none 04:00 36 2 8 357 (N) ptly cldy none 05:00 35 1 8 350 (N) mstly clr none 06:00 36 1 19 5 (N) 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