Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20180104 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 13:46:55 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, January 04, 2018 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- G.Wallerstein G.Wallerstein chelle 17:36 23:20 D.Chojnowski T.Rudyk ECHELLE 23:20 00:10 Y.Notsu Y.Notsu ECHELLE 00:10 06:50 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW12/R 17:19 23:40 0 0 0 0 3.1 3.2 0 0 NM04/O 23:40 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.5 0 0 UW10/R 00:10 06:58 0 0 0 0 0.0 6.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk Evening started mostly cloudy with rain on the radar, but it all blew out by 19:00. After that it was clear with very good seeing. Ecam was showing horizontal streaks due to shutter. Perfect night otherwise, great skies and no real 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:40 ecamera 318( -687) 91 65 1.7 2.9 3.3 3.3 2.1 ND3 0.88 19:49 ecamera 439( -606) 232 45 1.9 1.8 2.4 1.9 1.9 clear 0.83 00:22 ecamera 351( -790) 10 52 0.4 0.1 0.7 0.1 0.3 ND3 0.98 01:45 ecamera 398( -729) -77 41 0.8 0.1 0.8 0.3 0.8 ND2 0.87 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 36 2 5 4 (N) 270 mstly cldy none 17:00 36 2 10 30 (NNE) 231 ptly cldy none 18:00 35 21 12 6 (N) 115 ptly cldy none 19:00 35 20 16 4 (N) 131 mstly clr none 20:00 35 16 17 5 (N) 168 clear none 21:00 34 20 12 358 (N) 161 clear none 22:00 33 17 13 1 (N) 204 clear none 23:00 33 17 7 11 (N) 178 clear none 00:00 33 18 13 1 (N) 170 clear none 01:00 35 7 13 357 (N) 275 clear none 02:00 34 11 9 3 (N) 278 clear none 03:00 34 10 7 351 (N) 241 clear none 04:00 36 4 19 24 (NNE) 398 clear none 05:00 37 -2 11 19 (NNE) 413 clear none 06:00 37 -4 22 26 (NNE) 394 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