Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20170316 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:20:06 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, March 16, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- L.Hebb L.Hebb Echelle 19:20 00:09 M.Hammergren K.Nault,M.Brucker ARCTIC 00:12 02:04 M.Hammergren K.Nault,M.Brucker DIS 02:12 07:02 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW09/R 19:21 00:10 0 0 0 0 3.8 1.1 0 0 AD02/R 00:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 0 0 AD01/R 02:10 07:02 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.9 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk Night started out clear and calm with good seeing. Conditions remained good through midnight, and indeed the whole night. Seeing started out very good, but declined to merely ok by the end of the night. All programs got their full time on sky. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:53 ecamera 775( -175) 19 81 10.0 11.9 11.8 11.6 11.1 ND2 0.73 00:18 arctic 788( 906) 233 71 9.6 9.3 9.9 9.2 9.3 SDSS-r 1.19 02:26 dcamera 722( 694) -48 46 9.2 9.1 9.7 8.9 9.1 - 1.55 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 53 9 14 290 (WNW) 293 clear none 17:00 57 13 14 272 (W) 241 clear none 18:00 54 13 10 284 (WNW) 240 clear none 19:00 52 13 10 272 (W) 271 clear none 20:00 50 13 8 266 (W) 308 clear none 21:00 51 13 11 263 (W) 285 clear none 22:00 51 13 9 262 (W) 325 clear none 23:00 50 12 12 229 (SW) 402 clear none 00:00 49 15 7 273 (W) 366 clear none 01:00 50 15 17 295 (WNW) 376 clear none 02:00 49 14 0 3 (N) 349 clear none 03:00 49 12 10 10 (N) 274 clear none 04:00 49 16 15 6 (N) 340 clear none 05:00 49 15 16 14 (NNE) 312 clear none 06:00 50 16 7 20 (NNE) 349 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: 1.2.2 Current TUI version: 2.6.0