Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20170929 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 10:25:02 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, September 29, 2017 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Thuan Y.Izotov TSPEC --:-- --:-- J.Bary J.Bary ECHELLE --:-- --:-- INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UV05/R 18:58 01:10 0 6.2 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 NA01/R 01:10 06:49 4.9 0.8 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky ecamera needed to be power cycled during checkout to get it to work. High humidity all night long. Fog formed around 03:30. I gave up at 04:15 with fog and very high humidity. ARCTIC and Blue ion controllers were fine during morning check at 04:15. Red was on but HV off, as Red was warming for pumping this coming week. ------- 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 55 51 12 236 (SW) mstly cldy humid 17:00 51 47 6 85 (E) ptly cldy humid 18:00 49 47 12 79 (E) ptly cldy humid 19:00 46 45 10 85 (E) ptly cldy humid 20:00 46 45 12 83 (E) ptly cldy humid 21:00 46 44 12 112 (ESE) ptly cldy humid 22:00 46 44 12 106 (ESE) mstly clr humid 23:00 45 44 11 87 (E) mstly clr humid 00:00 44 44 10 92 (E) mstly clr humid 01:00 45 43 17 123 (ESE) ptly cldy humid 02:00 46 45 15 121 (ESE) mstly cldy humid 03:00 47 45 18 132 (SE) cloudy fog 04:00 47 47 12 179 (S) cloudy fog 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