Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20160327 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 13:07:46 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, March 27, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Holtzman J.Holtzman DIS 19:24 00:00 M.Hammergren K.Nault ARCTIC 00:12 02:02 S.van Velzan S.van Velzan TSPEC 02:27 06:23 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM02/O 19:29 00:10 0 0 0 0 3.6 1.0 0 0 AD02/R 00:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 0 0 JH02/R 02:10 06:47 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.6 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray The night started out clear and calm. Team Holtz (NM02) was comprised of the following trainie minions on their last night of adventuring: Laural Ferris, Gavin Mathes, Jeremy Emmett, Jodi Berdis, Agnar Hall, Caitlin Doughty, Drew Chojnowsai, James Fleeman, Emma Dahl. Seeing dropped below 1" for a portion of the night and was moderate all night. Tspec performed beautifully tonight! 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:54 dcamera 611( 501) 174 47 3.8 7.5 6.9 7.1 5.8 -- 1.80 20:28 dcamera 507( 267) 60 65 4.9 5.1 5.5 4.9 4.7 -- 1.10 22:24 dcamera 508( 225) -2 75 4.8 4.4 4.8 4.2 4.6 -- 1.30 23:23 arctic 560( 456) -39 74 5.3 5.0 5.5 5.1 5.0 SDSS-r 0.80 03:33 tcamera 624( 563) 266 43 5.0 4.5 4.9 4.5 4.4 -- 1.00 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. ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 49 14 7 258 (WSW) 1009 clear none 17:00 48 11 12 261 (W) 889 clear none 18:00 45 11 7 262 (W) 869 clear none 19:00 44 11 9 197 (SSW) 885 clear none 20:00 39 9 6 178 (S) 815 clear none 21:00 40 9 10 199 (SSW) 813 clear none 22:00 41 13 11 214 (SW) 1077 clear none 23:00 39 10 10 178 (S) 1027 clear none 00:00 42 8 7 205 (SSW) 909 clear none 01:00 41 8 9 210 (SSW) 944 clear none 02:00 41 13 15 191 (S) 1332 clear none 03:00 41 14 17 202 (SSW) 1135 clear none 04:00 41 14 18 202 (SSW) 1132 clear none 05:00 41 15 19 201 (SSW) 1182 clear none 06:00 40 15 20 210 (SSW) 1189 clear none TELESCOPE STATUS Telescope drives operational. Current TCC version: 1.2.2 Current TUI version: 2.5.1