Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20160407 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 11:10:10 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, April 07, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- N.Dello Russo A.McKay ECHELLE --:-- --:-- C.Vargas C.Vargas ARCTIC --:-- --:-- INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- JH02/R 19:37 01:10 5.1 0.5 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 NM01/R 01:10 06:33 5.4 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Threat of rain first half, actual rain second half, thick clouds all night. We never came close to opening. I did tests of fringing flats with ARCTIC and also methods to generate a failure in image downloads. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 57 13 7 178 (S) 697 cloudy none 17:00 53 15 10 163 (SSE) 722 cloudy none 18:00 52 15 18 129 (SE) 731 cloudy none 19:00 50 17 18 139 (SE) 940 cloudy none 20:00 49 17 10 112 (ESE) 999 cloudy none 21:00 46 18 15 94 (E) 1418 mstly cldy none 22:00 46 19 21 83 (E) 1919 mstly cldy none 23:00 44 19 16 102 (ESE) 2850 mstly cldy none 00:00 42 19 14 113 (ESE) 2933 cloudy none 01:00 41 20 22 113 (ESE) 3213 cloudy none 02:00 42 22 22 125 (SE) 3015 cloudy lt rain 03:00 40 25 12 111 (ESE) 2588 cloudy lt rain 04:00 37 27 16 114 (ESE) 2493 cloudy rain 05:00 35 29 11 103 (ESE) 2124 cloudy rain 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