Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20160314 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:14:36 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, March 14, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- P.Szkody P.Szkody DIS 19:51 22:05 B.Morris B.Morris Agile 00:22 06:31 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW08/R 19:19 23:00 0 0.9 0 0 0.0 2.8 0 0 UW01/R 23:00 07:04 0 1.4 0 0 5.4 1.3 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray The night started out with high winds and small clouds. The dust behaved itself and we were able to open until around 22:00 when it spike and I had to close for 2 hours. No problems tonight. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23:37 dcamera 525( 256) -2 57 4.7 4.5 4.9 4.7 4.5 -- 1.50 19:51 dcamera 558( 446) 139 66 7.1 7.6 7.9 7.4 7.0 -- 2.50 23:32 AGILE 593(-1680) 18 57 4.1 5.3 6.9 5.3 4.7 SDSS-r 1.40 03:33 AGILE 860(-1509) -67 33 2.8 3.1 5.4 3.2 3.0 SDSS-r 1.00 04:16 AGILE 855(-1524) -74 24 2.4 2.8 5.1 2.9 2.6 SDSS-r 1.40 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 52 19 26 246 (WSW) 1469 mstly clr none 17:00 53 20 22 247 (WSW) 1844 mstly clr none 18:00 51 20 25 266 (W) 1630 clear none 19:00 48 19 27 268 (W) 1703 clear none 20:00 46 20 18 263 (W) 1603 clear none 21:00 44 19 18 258 (WSW) 1343 clear none 22:00 43 20 19 264 (W) 4697 clear dust 23:00 42 20 23 265 (W) 4603 clear dust 00:00 41 21 12 258 (WSW) 3559 clear none 01:00 39 21 21 272 (W) 3377 clear none 02:00 39 19 21 289 (WNW) 3420 clear none 03:00 38 18 25 291 (WNW) 3044 clear none 04:00 38 17 17 322 (NW) 2163 mstly clr none 05:00 37 19 19 314 (NW) 2393 mstly cldy none 06:00 36 19 21 1 (N) 2089 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