Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20180116 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:57:21 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, January 16, 2018 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- P.Szkody Z.Dai DIS 17:30 00:14 D.Bizyaev D.Bizyaev DIS 00:14 06:45 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW09/R 17:30 00:10 0 0 0 0 6.7 0.0 0 0 NM09/R 00:10 06:57 0 0 0 0 6.8 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk Evening started cloudy, but it started to clear before sunset. Night was calm and the seeing was good. Weather held through the dawn, and there were no problems. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:59 dcamera 570( 314) 50 45 -0.8 0.7 0.3 0.8 -0.4 - 1.09 01:24 dcamera 443( 6) -136 52 -2.2 -2.8 -2.3 -3.1 -2.8 - 1.13 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 30 14 4 6 (N) 776 mstly clr none 17:00 30 14 1 330 (NNW) 880 clear none 18:00 30 15 11 6 (N) 452 clear none 19:00 31 18 9 15 (NNE) 225 clear none 20:00 32 18 8 27 (NNE) 176 clear none 21:00 31 18 1 194 (SSW) 142 clear none 22:00 30 18 7 8 (N) 153 clear none 23:00 29 18 6 350 (N) 160 clear none 00:00 28 18 2 346 (NNW) 194 clear none 01:00 27 17 1 216 (SW) 177 clear none 02:00 28 16 3 265 (W) 170 clear none 03:00 27 15 5 358 (N) 168 clear none 04:00 29 9 12 357 (N) 142 clear none 05:00 26 13 10 359 (N) 152 clear none 06:00 27 8 5 13 (NNE) 124 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