Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20170913 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 12:14:29 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, September 13, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- S.Tuttle S.Tuttle, Students TSPEC 22:30 00:25 EYEPIECE 00:25 01:10 J.Sebastian J.Sebastian DIS 01:10 06:38 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW02/O 19:20 01:10 3.2 0 0 0 2.4 0.2 0 0 CU02/R 01:10 06:38 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.5 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky UW Students: N.Sanchez, T.Dorn-Wallenstein, M. Lazzarini, M.Durbin, J. Moeyens, A. Lincowski, H.Smotherman Clouds for the first half until I felt it was safe to open at 22:30. We remained open for the remainder of the night. My 2nd half observer got a bad alt status during a slew to a standard star, which halted the alt axis. axis stop, powere cycle, and init fixed the issue. I also did a alt Dump afterwards (see below for timestamp) 2017-09-14 09:34:12 .tcc.0 0 tcc w BadAltStatus; AltStat=74.171540,-0.000010,5012098452.70000,0x00006001; AltDTime=0.13 2017-09-14 09:37:48 CmdStarted: APO.APO-Jack 237 tcc talk alt MS.DUMP ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21:40 tcamera 404( 1188) 111 61 16.7 17.3 17.6 17.4 16.7 Ks 0.95 00:19 dcamera 286( 817) 271 65 17.0 16.3 16.9 16.3 16.7 -- 1.10 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 69 36 10 300 (WNW) ptly cldy none 17:00 71 36 8 272 (W) ptly cldy none 18:00 66 34 9 275 (W) mstly cldy none 19:00 59 39 5 350 (N) cloudy none 20:00 59 38 2 238 (WSW) cloudy lt rain 21:00 63 33 8 110 (ESE) mstly cldy none 22:00 63 33 8 345 (NNW) mstly clr none 23:00 63 32 3 10 (N) mstly clr none 00:00 62 33 10 25 (NNE) clear none 01:00 63 31 6 339 (NNW) clear none 02:00 61 32 3 346 (NNW) clear none 03:00 63 34 10 335 (NNW) clear none 04:00 62 34 11 332 (NNW) clear none 05:00 60 35 6 11 (N) clear none 06:00 59 36 5 17 (NNE) 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: 1.2.4 Current TUI version: 2.6.0