Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20170110 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:53:19 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, January 10, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- K.Pan H.Yan ECHELLE 17:25 00:04 D.Gies K.Lester ECHELLE 00:05 06:09 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM11/R 17:25 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 6.8 0 0 GS03/R 00:10 06:58 0 0 0 0 0.8 6.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray Gcam needed a hub restart and Dataq needed a restart as well at the beginning of the night. Clouds made navigation of the sky difficult at times but, as all good citizens of the APO empire, we prevailed! The blowing winds of the west were not enough to break our sail (primary mirror) and we piloted on to the dawn. Though the journey was long, we saw dawn break on a clear sky with good seeing ( 1u per 0.1 cubic feet. TELESCOPE STATUS Telescope drives operational. Current TCC version: 1.2.2 Current TUI version: 2.6.0