Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20170927 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:37:41 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, September 27, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO --:-- --:-- P.Gaulme P.Gaulme, M.Benbakoura Echelle --:-- --:-- J.Sebastian J.Sebastian DIS --:-- --:-- INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- AP01/R 19:01 20:01 0 1.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 NM02/R 20:01 01:10 0.9 4.2 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 CU02/R 01:10 06:47 5.6 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Humidity, clouds and light rain tonight kept us closed. I gave up at 04:20. We had clouds, humidity, and light rain and no chance of opening for the remainder of the night. ION pumps were fine when I did my morning checkout at 04:30. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 49 46 15 121 (ESE) ptly cldy humid 17:00 49 45 14 90 (E) ptly cldy humid 18:00 48 45 18 83 (E) mstly cldy humid 19:00 47 45 17 76 (ENE) ptly cldy humid 20:00 46 45 14 88 (E) ptly cldy humid 21:00 47 45 18 82 (E) mstly cldy humid 22:00 47 46 18 85 (E) cloudy lt rain 23:00 47 46 20 63 (ENE) cloudy lt rain 00:00 46 46 17 113 (ESE) cloudy lt rain 01:00 47 46 14 88 (E) cloudy lt rain 02:00 47 46 18 110 (ESE) cloudy lt rain 03:00 47 46 14 126 (SE) cloudy lt rain 04:00 48 46 3 175 (S) cloudy lt 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: 1.2.4 Current TUI version: 2.6.0