Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20181101 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 11:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, November 01, 2018 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- D.Chojnowski D.Chojnowski ECHELLE 18:18 19:19 J.Roberts J.Roberts ARCTIC 19:23 01:04 M.Skrutskie O.Fox TSpec 01:15 05:30 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM01/R 18:21 19:21 0 0 0 0 1.0 0.0 0 0 CU02/R 19:21 01:10 0 0 0 0 5.8 0.0 0 0 UV01/R 01:10 07:13 0 0 0 0 0.8 5.3 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk Finally weather we could open with! We initially had high haze, but low winds and good seeing. The clouds blew out after a few hours, and the wind stayed low and the good seeing continued all night. We were open *all night* yay! ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:23 ecamera 549( -507) 96 51 0.2 1.6 2.3 2.2 0.8 ND5 1.11 19:30 arctic 750( 623) 169 81 0.7 0.6 1.2 0.8 0.8 SDSS_i 0.82 01:22 tcamera 820( 721) 160 34 0.0 -0.4 0.1 -0.5 -0.1 - 1.04 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 33 21 3 1 (N) 5 ptly cldy none 17:00 33 19 21 11 (N) 6 ptly cldy none 18:00 33 18 10 351 (N) 6 ptly cldy none 19:00 32 17 9 5 (N) 4 clear none 20:00 33 14 15 13 (NNE) 8 clear none 21:00 33 13 18 359 (N) 10 clear none 22:00 34 14 8 352 (N) 3 clear none 23:00 33 15 13 359 (N) 3 clear none 00:00 33 15 10 358 (N) 2 clear none 01:00 32 15 6 325 (NW) 0 clear none 02:00 31 16 6 344 (NNW) 3 clear none 03:00 32 17 7 334 (NNW) 3 clear none 04:00 32 16 11 357 (N) 4 clear none 05:00 32 17 9 37 (NE) 6 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