Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20170612 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:16:52 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, June 12, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Klaene J.Dembicky, R.McMillan DIS 20:21 00:45 Echelle 00:45 02:25 ARCTIC 02:25 03:35 S-H 03:35 04:35 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN01/W 20:21 05:46 0 0 0 0 2.3 7.1 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Reset drive controllers (ALT, AZ, NA2 Rotator, Agile) The Agile filter wheel was reading the correct filter earlier in the afternoon. After I reset the Agile rotator controller (or sometime after I noticed) the filter wheel connection failed. Is this related to the reset of the rotator? Zero'ed NA2 rotator (-0.0840) Took pinhole exposure with DIS for focus/contamination check Throughput measurements for 4 stars PG1708, Feige 34,66,and 67 Slitviewer vs. spectrograph focus 0.9 arc sec slit X column used 1110 Slitviewer Blue Red focus Seeing FWHM FWHM 627 1.37 3.391 3.213* -25 3.438* 3.474 -50 3.356* 3.825 -75 3.996 4.817 -100 4.827 6.027 -150 6.936 8.489 +25 3.935 3.849 +50 3.687 3.402 +75 4.494 3.937 +100 5.467 4.825 +150 6.746 5.669 638 1.40 3.603 3.505 Pickup science for M.Skrutskie Star data in APO/Skrutskie/HD199217, Calibration & darks in APO/echelle/ AOV star HD199217 @ 1x300s BD50 @ 4x900s std set echelle cals Dark 2x900s ARCTIC orientation tests completed Shack-Hartmann collimation adjusted by Russet ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:25 dcamera 546( 1174) 240 52 16.7 18.1 18.0 18.1 17.7 -- 1.40 20:33 NA2gdr 1000(31000) 146 48 16.7 17.9 17.8 17.8 17.4 clear 1.25 21:28 dcamera 594( 1146) 290 57 16.5 16.7 17.0 16.5 16.4 -- 1.20 22:00 dcamera 629( 1163) 283 51 16.2 16.2 16.8 16.3 16.2 -- 1.10 22:35 dcamera 627( 1152) 276 43 15.9 15.9 16.5 16.0 16.1 -- 1.40 22:56 dcamera 638( 1159) 273 39 15.8 15.8 16.3 15.8 15.9 -- 1.40 23:49 ecamera 524( 161) 131 48 15.4 15.2 15.9 15.3 15.2 ND1 1.15 01:52 arctic 597( 1164) 94 56 14.0 14.0 14.7 13.9 13.8 sdss_u 1.10 01:55 NA2gdr 2944(38944) 94 57 14.1 14.0 14.7 13.9 13.8 clear 1.14 03:09 shack 647( 1586) 63 57 13.3 13.5 14.1 13.4 13.3 -- 1.20 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 70 26 22 252 (WSW) 684 clear none 17:00 69 24 22 267 (W) 490 clear none 18:00 70 25 16 259 (W) 751 clear none 19:00 66 23 17 252 (WSW) 717 clear none 20:00 63 21 18 253 (WSW) 721 clear none 21:00 61 20 14 263 (W) 725 clear none 22:00 61 20 14 253 (WSW) 756 clear none 23:00 61 19 15 259 (W) 673 clear none 00:00 60 19 19 247 (WSW) 698 clear none 01:00 59 20 17 257 (WSW) 766 clear none 02:00 59 20 12 260 (W) 723 clear none 03:00 57 21 18 264 (W) 865 clear none 04:00 57 22 16 271 (W) 992 clear none 05:00 56 22 10 264 (W) 840 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