Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20170416 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 12:45:11 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, April 16, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Hughes J.Hughes ARCTIC 19:42 01:03 P.Gaulme J.McKeever ECHELLE 01:08 06:05 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- SU01/R 19:43 01:10 0 0 0 0 4.7 0.8 0 0 NM02/R 01:10 06:22 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.2 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Another lovely night, mostly clear but not quite photometric first half, and then photometric second half when we were doing spectroscopy. But that's okay because we got lots of data. Everything worked pretty well. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22:41 arctic 782( 977) -48 67 10.6 10.8 11.4 10.6 10.7 SDSS_u 0.77 01:18 ecamera 844( -194) -16 45 10.0 9.8 10.5 9.8 9.8 ND1 1.07 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 61 14 11 213 (SSW) 1581 mstly clr none 17:00 58 17 8 250 (WSW) 1790 mstly clr none 18:00 57 14 4 249 (WSW) 1738 mstly clr none 19:00 57 12 6 270 (W) 1622 mstly clr none 20:00 53 9 7 273 (W) 1706 mstly clr none 21:00 52 10 11 262 (W) 1758 mstly clr none 22:00 51 7 7 271 (W) 1976 clear none 23:00 51 7 5 260 (W) 2098 clear none 00:00 51 7 5 258 (WSW) 2601 clear none 01:00 50 5 5 204 (SSW) 2320 clear none 02:00 50 4 4 231 (SW) 2357 clear none 03:00 51 6 6 258 (WSW) 2278 clear none 04:00 50 5 5 337 (NNW) 2328 clear none 05:00 50 5 1 346 (NNW) 2430 clear none 06:00 51 6 6 70 (ENE) 2107 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