Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20171205 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 10:49:46 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, December 05, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- L.Hebb L.Hebb ARCTIC --:-- --:-- S.Mahadevan S.Mahadevan ARCTIC --:-- --:-- INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NA03/R 17:06 00:10 2.3 4.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 DD01/R 00:10 06:43 0.0 6.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Cloudy all night long. We had a few flakes of snow fall but no accumulation. My observer gave up at 03:00 with little to no hope of the sky improving. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 38 21 7 279 (W) 471 cloudy none 17:00 36 21 10 313 (NW) 639 cloudy none 18:00 36 22 13 290 (WNW) 535 cloudy none 19:00 35 24 7 338 (NNW) 446 cloudy none 20:00 36 22 8 275 (W) 379 cloudy lt snow 21:00 35 23 10 275 (W) 457 cloudy none 22:00 35 22 11 270 (W) 242 cloudy none 23:00 36 22 12 265 (W) 297 cloudy none 00:00 34 22 6 257 (WSW) 344 cloudy none 01:00 34 22 6 196 (SSW) 452 cloudy lt snow 02:00 33 22 8 259 (W) 910 cloudy lt snow 03:00 32 24 8 265 (W) 814 cloudy 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