Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20170208 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 14:40:52 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, February 08, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Klaene J.Dembicky, R.McMillan ARCTIC 17:51 00:27 S-H 00:27 02:00 DIS 02:00 06:43 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN01/W 17:51 06:43 0 0 0 0 1.0 11.9 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky DIS 02:00 06:43 Jon was working on backing up NICFPS so that computer was offline. TSPEC is being warmed, so it is offline. Agile was also offline for some reason this afternoon. I just needed to restart the Nubs to re-connect it. Reset axis controllers for ALt,Az, and NA2 rotator. Zero'ed rotator (-0.135) Russet came in to do tests with ARCTIC tonight Started 1st ARCTIC tracking tests, in SE, at 20:00 Started 2nd ARCTIC traking tests, in N, at 21:07 Various other ARCTIC tests until 00:27 when we switched to check the collimation with the Shack-Hartmann. No collimation adjustment necessary. Focus Blue Red (715) (1174) (1174) 0 2.819 2.576 -150 7.194 6.971 -100 5.102 4.941 -50 3.512 3.267 -25 3.15 2.857 0 2.915 2.642 25 3.319 3.115 50 3.317 3.262 100 4.408 4.825 150 6.705 7.405 0 2.821 2.434 (728) ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:32 arctic 814( 834) 31 53 7.3 7.2 7.0 7.1 7.2 sdss r 1.10 19:45 NA2gdr 4087(38087) 26 54 7.7 7.2 7.2 7.2 7.4 clear 1.00 00:15 arctic 760( 729) 132 73 6.9 6.4 6.7 6.5 6.4 sdss r 1.27 01:19 shack 910( 1275) 61 65 6.4 6.2 6.7 6.2 6.1 -- 1.00 02:11 dcamera 715( 509) 218 76 6.6 5.9 6.4 5.7 5.7 -- 1.00 02:43 dcamera 728( 519) 230 72 6.3 5.8 6.4 5.5 5.6 -- 1.00 02:49 guider 545( 482) 232 71 6.4 5.7 6.3 5.5 5.5 R 1.00 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 45 25 16 306 (NW) clear none 17:00 44 23 4 295 (WNW) clear none 18:00 42 22 13 23 (NNE) clear none 19:00 44 22 5 175 (S) mstly clr none 20:00 46 26 8 161 (SSE) mstly clr none 21:00 46 25 2 201 (SSW) ptly cldy none 22:00 45 25 4 187 (S) ptly cldy none 23:00 46 24 1 323 (NW) ptly cldy none 00:00 45 23 1 330 (NNW) ptly cldy none 01:00 44 23 2 230 (SW) ptly cldy none 02:00 44 23 1 223 (SW) ptly cldy none 03:00 43 24 1 216 (SW) ptly cldy none 04:00 43 22 2 13 (NNE) ptly cldy none 05:00 45 22 1 302 (WNW) ptly cldy none 06:00 43 22 3 334 (NNW) ptly cldy 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: 1.2.2 Current TUI version: 2.6.0