Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20170922 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 11:17:47 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, September 22, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- Y.Notsu Y.Notsu ECHELLE 19:08 22:26 Y.Notsu Y.Notsu ECHELLE 23:43 00:43 T.Thuan Y.Izotov DIS --:-- --:-- INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW07/R 19:08 01:10 1.7 0 0 0 2.6 1.7 0 0 UV05/R 01:10 06:44 5.0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray Lots of issues tonight. - gcam was not responding this afternoon and it took an ICC restarted followed by a gcam power cycle to get things working again. - The louvers are not opening in the Enclosure window. I have not tried opening them manually as it will be raining through dawn. - Parallels needed restarting - The wind caused a few failed motions during opening and closing. The good news is no time was lost due to any of these issues. Well, except for the weather. We were able to open on time but closed a little before midnight due to threat of rain in the area. There was a sucker hole that lasted for an hour but B half was completely weathered out. We gave up around 5am. Additionally, UV05 suffered from connection issues all B half and Fritz had to unblock the users IP address. The user is logging in from the Ukraine and has suffered connection issues on previous observations. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:17 ecamera 312( 67) 39 51 15.9 17.6 17.8 17.4 16.3 ND1 1.89 19:30 ecamera 250( -87) 193 73 15.9 16.1 16.5 15.7 15.7 Clear 0.76 22:51 ecamera 269( -113) 15 41 13.4 14.7 15.4 14.8 13.8 ND3 2.38 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 66 36 26 213 (SSW) ptly cldy none 17:00 65 37 21 191 (S) ptly cldy none 18:00 65 37 15 235 (SW) mstly clr none 19:00 61 36 21 238 (WSW) mstly clr none 20:00 60 35 17 203 (SSW) mstly clr none 21:00 61 37 18 184 (S) ptly cldy none 22:00 61 37 18 191 (S) mstly cldy none 23:00 59 40 22 137 (SE) cloudy humid 00:00 56 48 20 140 (SE) ptly cldy humid 01:00 57 45 23 172 (S) cloudy lt rain 02:00 54 49 15 156 (SSE) cloudy rain 03:00 54 47 17 162 (SSE) cloudy rain 04:00 52 41 20 223 (SW) cloudy rain 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