Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20171020 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 13:06:16 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, October 20, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Matthews S.Liss,A.Matthews DIS 18:52 01:10 C.Gnilka C.Gnilka,D.Dashtamirova DIS 01:10 06:32 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UV02/R 18:33 01:10 0 0 0 0 5.8 0.9 0 0 GS02/R 01:10 07:04 0 0 0 0 5.9 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk Gcam need a startNubs tonight during checkout. Evening started clear, and stayed mostly clear with an occasion bout of sudden clouds that would form and dissipate equally quickly. Pattern persited though the night, but we did not shut down nor did it impact observing too badly. Seeing was a bit bad tonight. We stayed open all night. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:04 dcamera 410( 715) 52 44 9.9 11.6 11.7 11.9 10.3 - 1.74 19:53 dcamera 426( 677) 1 40 10.6 10.5 10.9 10.5 10.5 - 1.61 01:17 dcamera 375( 537) 284 49 9.1 8.9 9.4 9.0 9.0 - 2.31 02:28 dcamera 414( 544) 317 57 8.3 8.4 8.9 8.5 8.4 - 2.04 02:30 dcamera 450( 580) 316 57 8.3 8.4 8.9 8.5 8.4 - 1.78 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 54 39 20 260 (W) 562 clear none 17:00 54 37 18 236 (SW) 495 clear none 18:00 52 36 22 247 (WSW) 551 clear none 19:00 50 35 22 254 (WSW) 597 clear none 20:00 51 33 24 252 (WSW) 599 clear none 21:00 52 31 18 247 (WSW) 605 clear none 22:00 51 31 18 247 (WSW) 549 clear none 23:00 50 32 23 235 (SW) 624 clear none 00:00 49 32 22 222 (SW) 649 clear none 01:00 49 31 20 247 (WSW) 655 clear none 02:00 48 31 27 264 (W) 568 clear none 03:00 46 32 24 261 (W) 567 clear none 04:00 44 33 23 260 (W) 620 clear none 05:00 44 36 17 255 (WSW) 1008 clear none 06:00 44 38 22 268 (W) 1300 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