Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20170831 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:06:34 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, August 31, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- W.Chick W.Chick TSPEC 19:37 01:00 S.Silverberg J.Wisniewski DIS 01:18 03:24 K.McGouldrick K.McGouldrick, C.Gray ARCTIC 03:39 06:53 R.McCabe, K.Sayanagi INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- WY02/R 19:37 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.6 0 0 OU01/R 01:10 03:30 0 0 0 0 1.1 1.2 0 0 CU01/R 03:30 06:30 0 0 0 0 3.0 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky The Graphs on the Dataq locked up (voltages and errors, not load cells). I could not seem to close it or I more wasn't sure what to force closed on the Mac side. No Problems tonight. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:55 tcamera 518( 1305) 34 47 13.4 17.2 17.4 17.7 14.2 Ks 1.00 00:32 dcamera 297( 533) 289 45 10.5 10.3 11.0 10.2 10.3 -- 1.64 02:03 dcamera 422( 683) 181 60 12.4 11.1 11.6 11.3 12.5 -- 1.20 02:45 arctic 440( 860) 88 49 12.2 11.0 11.7 11.2 11.4 SDSS_u+ND1.3 1.20 02:49 arctic 455( 873) 88 50 11.9 11.0 11.7 11.2 11.3 SDSS_z+ND4 1.00 02:54 arctic 433( 848) 87 51 12.0 10.9 11.6 11.1 11.2 SDSS_g+ND2.5 1.40 04:16 arctic 403( 789) 70 68 11.4 10.6 11.2 10.4 10.9 SDSS_u+ND1.3 1.20 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 62 44 9 262 (W) clear none 17:00 66 45 4 259 (W) clear none 18:00 63 44 7 194 (SSW) clear none 19:00 60 43 5 249 (WSW) clear none 20:00 56 42 10 139 (SE) clear none 21:00 54 41 12 111 (ESE) clear none 22:00 55 39 13 138 (SE) clear none 23:00 52 39 10 111 (ESE) clear none 00:00 51 39 9 111 (ESE) clear none 01:00 51 39 3 132 (SE) clear none 02:00 53 40 5 95 (E) clear none 03:00 54 40 5 342 (NNW) clear none 04:00 54 40 3 272 (W) clear none 05:00 53 40 7 0 (N) clear none 06:00 53 39 5 0 (N) 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