Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20160519 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 11:32:55 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, May 19, 2016 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Hammergren K.Nault, M.Brucker ARCTIC 20:07 21:30 V.Woolf V.Woolf Echelle 21:30 01:05 S.Hasselquist S.Hasselquist ECHELLE 01:07 05:50 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- AD01/R 20:07 21:30 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.4 0 0 UW09/R 21:30 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.7 0 0 NM04/R 01:10 05:52 0 0 0 0 0.3 4.4 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky First night training our new Observing Specialist, Ted Rudyk. Welcome aboard Ted! I took a couple of test images with the NA2 guider while they were using ARCTIC. Bin 3 mode mask is not right, see image 168. Bin 1 mode worked better, image 169. Bin 2 is image 170 No telescope 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:27 arctic 521( 656) 72 71 7.1 9.5 9.2 9.2 8.4 sdss r 0.66 20:41 ecamera 616( -523) 237 66 8.1 8.1 8.4 7.9 7.7 ND1 0.84 00:08 ecamera 611( -521) 63 40 8.3 7.9 8.4 8.0 7.9 ND1 1.10 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 48 34 11 266 (W) 692 clear none 17:00 53 37 13 256 (WSW) 672 clear none 18:00 51 35 5 271 (W) 640 clear none 19:00 48 35 6 265 (W) 633 clear none 20:00 45 34 6 260 (W) 660 clear none 21:00 46 33 7 251 (WSW) 643 clear none 22:00 47 32 10 214 (SW) 679 mstly cldy none 23:00 47 32 9 213 (SSW) 716 ptly cldy none 00:00 48 30 14 242 (WSW) 726 clear none 01:00 47 30 13 245 (WSW) 653 clear none 02:00 47 30 12 259 (W) 784 clear none 03:00 47 30 11 266 (W) 777 clear none 04:00 46 31 9 260 (W) 849 clear none 05:00 46 30 12 227 (SW) 896 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