Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20160413 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 12:22:47 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, April 13, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- N.Schneider N.Schneider,C.Schmidt, DIS 19:36 00:04 C.Grava, K.Conner, C.Gray M.Hammergren K.Nault, M.Brucker ARCTIC 00:15 02:07 V.Woolf V.Woolf Echelle 02:13 05:55 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- CU06/O 19:41 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.5 0 0 AD02/R 00:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 0 0 UW09/R 02:10 06:26 0 0 0 0 4.2 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray The night started out clear and calm and stayed beautiful all night. Seeing was good with sub-arcsecond seeing in the middle of the night. 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:47 dcamera 700( 725) 110 18 6.6 9.5 8.4 9.9 8.8 -- 2.50 19:25 dcamera 562( 501) 58 51 6.8 8.4 7.9 8.3 7.3 -- 1.30 20:35 dcamera 391( 264) 33 61 7.5 7.3 7.4 7.1 6.8 -- 1.40 23:24 arctic 525( 502) -49 43 7.1 6.2 6.6 6.0 6.2 SDSS-r 0.80 01:16 ecamera 518( -732) -34 58 6.6 5.8 6.4 5.8 5.8 -- 1.10 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 47 30 7 342 (NNW) 392 clear none 17:00 47 24 12 314 (NW) 364 clear none 18:00 47 26 11 318 (NW) 377 clear none 19:00 47 27 7 274 (W) 411 clear none 20:00 44 28 6 5 (N) 401 clear none 21:00 45 23 12 23 (NNE) 393 clear none 22:00 44 24 8 10 (N) 371 clear none 23:00 42 22 0 9 (N) 371 clear none 00:00 45 24 6 319 (NW) 379 clear none 01:00 44 25 5 242 (WSW) 387 clear none 02:00 44 28 6 259 (W) 361 clear none 03:00 44 26 7 270 (W) 377 clear none 04:00 43 27 7 270 (W) 437 clear none 05:00 44 27 5 271 (W) 410 clear none 06:00 45 25 3 256 (WSW) 395 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