Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20160318 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 12:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, March 18, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- K.Pan K.Pan, H.Yan ECHELLE 19:22 04:00 A.Youngblood A.Youngblood DIS 04:00 06:59 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM07/R 19:22 04:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 8.6 0 0 DD05/O 04:10 06:59 0 0 0 0 2.1 0.9 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Good night for the first half. A cold front moved in after midnight which dropped our temps to around 1C by morning. No telescope problems ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:06 ecamera 576( -486) 232 82 8.4 9.7 9.6 9.4 8.7 ND2 0.94 03:05 dcamera 477( 116) -106 72 2.6 2.8 3.5 2.7 2.3 -- 1.10 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 57 10 10 239 (WSW) 1874 clear none 17:00 52 8 19 285 (WNW) 1896 clear none 18:00 54 11 12 218 (SW) 1834 clear none 19:00 49 8 9 254 (WSW) 1773 clear none 20:00 47 7 12 212 (SSW) 1792 clear none 21:00 47 7 11 180 (S) 1587 clear none 22:00 46 8 15 216 (SW) 1621 clear none 23:00 44 9 9 215 (SW) 1772 clear none 00:00 43 9 9 216 (SW) 1850 clear none 01:00 41 11 9 229 (SW) 1878 clear none 02:00 39 14 5 202 (SSW) 1971 clear none 03:00 38 17 5 188 (S) 1989 clear none 04:00 37 18 6 200 (SSW) 2218 clear none 05:00 36 18 5 191 (S) 2253 clear none 06:00 34 18 5 257 (WSW) 2790 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