Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20171023 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:22:36 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, October 23, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- a.Gaulme J.McKeever ECHELLE 18:29 01:03 W.Peters W.Peters ARCTIC 01:06 03:13 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM02/R 18:29 01:10 0 0 0 0 3.8 2.9 0 0 GS04/R 01:10 07:06 3.9 0 0 0 2.9 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray Agile was not taking images during checkout. I tried going through the various restarts but was not able to get it to work and I sent a PR. The night was just awful. Seeing was very bad and the humidity kicked in hard around 3 am and we had to closed. We never reopened. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:04 ecamera 259( -157) -31 45 12.8 14.2 14.1 13.8 12.5 ND2 1.80 19:00 ecamera 265( -273) -131 67 10.1 12.0 12.7 11.9 10.6 Clear 1.83 20:41 ecamera 274( -380) -117 54 8.7 9.7 10.5 9.6 9.1 Clear 2.86 03:38 arctic 613( 598) 104 10 0.5 1.7 2.8 1.6 0.8 JC-I 4.00 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 59 26 6 339 (NNW) 247 clear none 17:00 58 26 1 233 (SW) 238 clear none 18:00 56 25 10 27 (NNE) 232 clear none 19:00 55 27 13 127 (SE) 306 clear none 20:00 50 27 22 74 (ENE) 335 clear none 21:00 50 26 14 81 (E) 256 clear none 22:00 47 28 23 74 (ENE) 732 clear none 23:00 44 30 15 79 (E) 1665 clear none 00:00 44 29 14 72 (ENE) 1552 clear none 01:00 40 30 16 72 (ENE) 1198 mstly clr humid 02:00 38 30 22 68 (ENE) 1115 mstly clr humid 03:00 35 30 15 77 (ENE) clear humid 04:00 34 30 16 72 (ENE) clear humid 05:00 33 30 15 65 (ENE) clear humid 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