Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20180105 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 13:12:10 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, January 05, 2018 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Tobin J.Tobin,N.Reynolds TripleSpec 17:15 23:58 C.Sakari C.Sakari ECHELLE 00:02 06:10 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- OU03/R 17:20 00:10 0 0 0 0 4.2 2.6 0 0 UW08/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 clear with high thin clouds. Seeing was good. Cleared up entirely. Stayed clear until about 23:00 when high thin clouds started coming in again. Fortunately, they did not get too much thicker. All programs got their full times. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:53 tcamera 635( 934) 48 54 6.3 7.7 7.6 7.8 6.6 Ks 0.90 01:09 ecamera 303( -643) -30 53 4.4 3.9 4.5 3.8 4.1 ND2 1.06 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 45 -1 11 11 (N) 218 mstly clr none 17:00 43 -2 15 1 (N) 111 mstly clr none 18:00 42 2 9 6 (N) 78 clear none 19:00 43 20 15 0 (N) 62 clear none 20:00 44 17 10 329 (NNW) 93 clear none 21:00 43 17 10 359 (N) 113 clear none 22:00 41 11 8 357 (N) 158 clear none 23:00 41 7 9 303 (WNW) 165 mstly clr none 00:00 39 6 6 312 (NW) 198 mstly clr none 01:00 40 1 7 311 (NW) 142 mstly clr none 02:00 41 11 7 25 (NNE) 273 mstly clr none 03:00 41 10 16 358 (N) 186 mstly clr none 04:00 40 14 12 4 (N) 182 mstly clr none 05:00 41 17 3 348 (NNW) 267 mstly clr none 06:00 40 17 15 19 (NNE) 281 mstly clr 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