Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20181222 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 14:16:45 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, December 22, 2018 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Bally J.Bally NICFPS 17:15 00:08 N.Reynolds N.Reynolds NICFPS 00:09 03:29 C.Gray C.Gray,S.Kobac Echelle 03:35 06:57 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- CU05/R 17:11 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.1 6.9 0 0 OU05/R 00:10 03:32 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.4 0 0 NM03/R 03:32 06:54 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.4 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan A lovely night with photometric skies and sub-arcsecond seeing, and everything working perfectly. I'm sure the dark time observers must be jealous. UT bcam bpump rcam rpump 23:00 9.44E-6 6.80E-7 7.35E-6 5.5E-7 09:00 5.09E-6 2.93E-7 6.96E-6 5.9E-7 14:00 4.63E-6 2.53E-7 6.57E-6 5.1E-7 ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:25 NICFPS 779( 1267) 213 51 4.2 5.5 5.6 5.1 4.4 Ks 0.72 18:57 NICFPS 743( 1142) 77 83 3.8 4.0 4.6 3.9 3.8 Ks 0.63 21:56 NICFPS 789( 1110) 198 59 2.8 2.4 3.5 2.9 2.8 H2 0.64 00:16 NICFPS 719( 1005) -17 50 1.0 1.5 2.4 1.7 1.6 Ks 0.94 03:41 ecamera 600( -473) 39 78 2.9 1.7 2.7 2.2 2.7 ND5 0.74 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 42 10 13 292 (WNW) 62 clear none 17:00 40 9 12 275 (W) 125 clear none 18:00 40 10 15 280 (W) 157 clear none 19:00 39 11 15 272 (W) 148 clear none 20:00 39 10 11 279 (W) 181 clear none 21:00 39 11 14 302 (WNW) 173 clear none 22:00 37 9 9 329 (NNW) 125 clear none 23:00 37 5 5 314 (NW) 51 clear none 00:00 36 6 14 350 (N) 43 clear none 01:00 33 5 0 136 (SE) 45 clear none 02:00 37 5 8 306 (NW) 41 clear none 03:00 38 1 8 283 (WNW) 32 clear none 04:00 37 5 9 271 (W) 37 clear none 05:00 37 12 12 287 (WNW) 34 clear none 06:00 36 5 6 261 (W) 33 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