Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20171228 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 13:09:10 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, December 28, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Bentz M.Bentz DIS 17:14 18:10 T.Harrison T.Harrison DIS 19:10 00:00 D.Chojnowski D.Chojnowski ECHELLE 00:00 00:40 B.Morris J.Dembicky ECHELLE 00:40 06:56 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NA02/R 17:14 18:14 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 NM03/R 18:14 00:10 0 0 0 1.0 0.0 4.9 0 0 NM05/R 00:10 00:40 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.5 0 0 UW06/O 00:40 06:56 0 0 0 0 3.8 2.4 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky TCamera ICC power failure. suspect power supply failed on computer. Took about an hour to diagnose problem. Tom used DIS instead of TSPEC due to this problem. No other problems tonight. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NM03 T I/H 18:10 19:10 Tcamera ICC power supply failure ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:38 dcamera 501( 592) -18 51 5.8 7.5 7.6 7.1 6.0 -- 1.20 19:18 dcamera 381( 406) 258 40 5.9 6.1 6.7 5.9 5.9 -- 1.20 00:07 ecamera 361( -520) 17 54 5.1 5.2 5.9 5.4 5.4 ND3 1.50 00:42 ecamera 329( -578) 2 55 4.2 4.7 5.3 4.6 4.3 ND2 1.10 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 45 3 3 7 (N) 370 clear none 17:00 44 9 8 45 (NE) 192 clear none 18:00 43 3 12 10 (N) 159 clear none 19:00 43 0 16 23 (NNE) 132 clear none 20:00 42 -3 7 13 (NNE) 136 clear none 21:00 41 -3 12 14 (NNE) 168 clear none 22:00 42 -1 10 5 (N) 152 clear none 23:00 43 -1 7 349 (N) 158 clear none 00:00 43 -1 6 33 (NNE) 176 clear none 01:00 41 -1 3 337 (NNW) 134 clear none 02:00 41 -1 10 314 (NW) 120 clear none 03:00 39 -1 10 350 (N) 136 clear none 04:00 40 -1 12 354 (N) 123 clear none 05:00 40 -4 13 327 (NNW) 111 clear none 06:00 41 -5 15 308 (NW) 126 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