Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20181223 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 14:22:15 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, December 23, 2018 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- D.Gies D.Gies ECHELLE 17:11 23:09 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 23:12 00:08 C.Sakari C.Sakari Echelle 00:12 03:32 C.Gray C.Gray, S.Kovac Echelle 03:32 06:58 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- GS05/R 17:11 23:10 0 0 0 0 1.1 4.8 0 0 AP01/R 23:10 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 UW14/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: C.Gray The night started out mostly clear and stayed mostly good all night. Clouds rolled at 1am but they were thin and didn't cause any problems. We had good seeing and APOLLO commented on how great a run they had! DIS vacuum readings: UT bcam bpump rcam rpump 00:00 5.84E-6 3.19E-7 6.11E-6 3.5E-7 07:00 3.48E-6 2.05E-7 3.38E-6 1.80E-7 13:00 3.00E-6 1.75E-7 6.12E-6 1.80E-7 No problems tonight. -------- AAAAAA P OOOOO for Christmas You can plan on me Please no snow to steal my show of Venus over the trees Christmas Eve will find me Where the star light gleams AAAAAA P OOOOO for Christmas It's still the best work dream AAAAAA P OOOOO for Christmas Haven't yet sacked me Green nightglow and espresso A Venus victory! Christmas Eve will find me Where the pump lights gleam AAAAAA P OOOOO for Christmas With Venus in my dreams ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -7 ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:20 ecamera 753( -157) 217 71 2.9 4.8 4.6 4.3 3.2 ND4 0.98 23:18 APOLLO 650( 1326) 90 59 2.0 1.5 2.4 1.8 2.0 530 1.70 00:17 ecamera 663( -410) -12 55 2.4 1.5 2.3 1.8 2.2 Clear 1.00 03:37 ecamera 669( -379) 80 46 2.5 1.8 2.6 2.2 2.4 ND1 1.53 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 40 12 13 263 (W) 228 mstly clr none 17:00 37 10 10 260 (W) 173 mstly clr none 18:00 37 13 14 267 (W) 188 clear none 19:00 37 14 14 259 (W) 132 clear none 20:00 37 14 13 261 (W) 130 clear none 21:00 37 14 15 260 (W) 133 clear none 22:00 36 12 12 264 (W) 115 mstly clr none 23:00 36 12 11 258 (WSW) 100 mstly clr none 00:00 36 13 12 265 (W) 119 ptly cldy none 01:00 37 14 18 268 (W) 152 mstly clr none 02:00 37 14 15 263 (W) 169 clear none 03:00 37 15 18 268 (W) 125 clear none 04:00 37 16 13 274 (W) 134 mstly clr none 05:00 36 16 15 265 (W) 170 mstly clr none 06:00 37 15 17 266 (W) 135 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