Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20171016 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:55:50 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, October 16, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Bally J.Bally NICFPS 18:40 00:18 J.Bally J.Bally ECHELLE 00:20 00:59 A.Kosakowski A.Kosakowski DIS 01:14 06:14 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- CU05/R 18:37 01:10 0 0 0 0 6.6 0.0 0 0 OU02/R 01:10 07:01 0 0 0 0 3.8 2.1 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Clear all night, good seeing all night, everything worked well except for the cloudcam filling up its disk and then stopping to work. And also I failed to record some of the focus data, but that was just wetware. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21:11 NICFPS 375( 1043) 231 73 9.2 9.3 9.8 9.0 9.3 Fe1.64 0.65 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 57 29 2 225 (SW) 781 clear none 17:00 53 28 2 240 (WSW) 726 clear none 18:00 50 28 1 209 (SSW) 915 clear none 19:00 49 17 1 269 (W) 347 clear none 20:00 48 16 5 12 (NNE) 241 clear none 21:00 49 18 5 358 (N) 227 clear none 22:00 46 35 3 281 (W) 268 clear none 23:00 47 29 5 353 (N) 251 clear none 00:00 47 22 4 345 (NNW) 266 clear none 01:00 45 32 4 329 (NNW) 367 clear none 02:00 45 31 6 283 (WNW) 279 clear none 03:00 45 28 8 309 (NW) 355 clear none 04:00 46 29 12 328 (NNW) 304 clear none 05:00 46 32 9 346 (NNW) 317 clear none 06:00 46 32 4 13 (NNE) 357 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: 1.2.4 Current TUI version: 2.6.0