Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20160317 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:34:38 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, March 17, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 19:22 20:05 K.France K.France, CU Students DIS 20:10 01:01 M.Hammergren K.Nault, M.Brucker ARCTIC 01:10 03:05 J.Holtzman S.Hasselquist Echelle 03:10 06:30 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- AP02/R 19:22 20:07 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.8 0 0 CU01/O 20:07 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.1 0 0 AD02/R 01:10 03:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 0 0 NM02/R 03:10 07:01 0 0 0 0 2.8 1.1 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky CU people: K.France, R.J.Smith, J.Herman, E.Nelson, Kinney, Shaver, Mezzalira, Trieu 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:16 APOLLO 550( 1481) 86 66 7.9 10.5 10.1 10.4 9.4 -- 1.20 19:14 dcamera 535( 494) 120 45 7.8 8.8 9.2 8.6 8.1 -- 1.40 21:44 dcamera 528( 415) -50 40 7.6 7.2 7.8 7.3 7.2 -- 1.20 00:22 arctic 435( 373) 32 72 5.2 5.8 6.2 5.6 5.3 sdss r 1.10 02:17 ecamera 525( -765) 44 56 5.3 5.0 5.6 5.0 4.9 clear 0.95 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 53 10 16 268 (W) 1691 clear none 18:00 51 10 12 248 (WSW) 1905 clear none 19:00 48 9 15 244 (WSW) 1872 clear none 20:00 47 9 15 224 (SW) 1689 clear none 21:00 46 9 16 241 (WSW) 1086 clear none 22:00 45 9 15 239 (WSW) 999 clear none 23:00 45 8 17 266 (W) 1298 clear none 00:00 44 8 16 264 (W) 2102 clear none 01:00 41 6 7 273 (W) 2175 clear none 02:00 43 6 7 288 (WNW) 1911 clear none 03:00 42 6 10 306 (NW) 1680 clear none 04:00 42 7 10 351 (N) 1707 clear none 05:00 42 5 11 332 (NNW) 1709 clear none 06:00 41 5 11 4 (N) 1859 clear 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