Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20171012 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:13:58 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, October 12, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- Z.Berta-Thompson Z.Berta-Thompson DIS 18:00 01:08 K.Pan Z.Zhou ECHELLE 01:12 06:01 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 06:02 07:00 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- CU01/R 18:42 01:10 0 0 0 0 6.2 0.3 0 0 NM07/R 01:10 05:58 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.8 0 0 AP01/R 05:58 06:58 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Adjusted pointing on the NA1 port. No morning Echelle IOL since my observer was taking cals with the instrument. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:01 dcamera 489( 980) 93 58 12.0 15.4 15.1 15.6 13.3 -- 1.40 23:32 dcamera 364( 730) -4 42 13.1 12.8 13.3 13.0 13.1 -- 1.40 00:18 ecamera 326( -162) -102 41 13.0 12.7 13.2 12.8 12.8 ND2 0.89 05:07 APOLLO 326( 1517) 78 73 11.6 11.7 12.2 11.9 12.1 -- 1.40 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 61 42 10 225 (SW) 568 mstly clr none 17:00 60 42 17 218 (SW) 658 mstly clr none 18:00 59 41 13 229 (SW) 668 clear none 19:00 54 40 9 236 (SW) clear none 20:00 55 41 5 186 (S) 736 clear none 21:00 55 39 6 175 (S) clear none 22:00 55 40 12 180 (S) 676 clear none 23:00 55 40 13 211 (SSW) clear none 00:00 56 41 13 192 (SSW) 633 ptly cldy none 01:00 55 43 15 209 (SSW) 602 clear none 02:00 55 43 11 193 (SSW) 550 clear none 03:00 54 45 11 194 (SSW) clear none 04:00 54 48 10 186 (S) 434 ptly cldy none 05:00 53 48 17 193 (SSW) mstly clr none 06:00 54 47 17 211 (SSW) ptly cldy 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: 1.2.4 Current TUI version: 2.6.0