Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20180204 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:49:26 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, February 04, 2018 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Tobin J.Tobin TSPEC 17:47 23:32 D.Chojnowski D.Chojnowski, C.Gray ECHELLE 23:38 00:06 B.Anguiano H.Lewis, R.Wilson ECHELLE 00:06 06:15 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- OU03/R 17:47 23:40 0 0 0 0 4.5 1.4 0 0 NM04/R 23:40 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.5 0 0 UV03/R 00:10 06:47 0 0 0 0 0.0 6.6 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray The night was clear with good seeing. We didn't have any problems with the echelle and, yeah, it was just a general all around good night! No problems tonight. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:53 tcamera 783( 1136) 57 35 6.9 8.5 8.0 8.4 7.2 -- 1.64 18:40 tcamera 608( 899) 42 40 6.6 7.4 7.4 7.1 6.6 -- 0.86 23:46 ecamera 380( -497) -36 49 5.4 5.2 5.8 5.5 5.4 ND2 0.81 00:11 ecamera 386( -474) -146 27 5.6 5.2 5.8 5.4 5.4 ND2 0.95 06:00 ecamera 373( -571) 121 61 4.7 4.0 4.7 4.2 4.3 clear 1.13 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 45 13 2 260 (W) 491 clear none 17:00 45 10 18 348 (NNW) 660 mstly clr none 18:00 44 9 5 350 (N) 496 mstly clr none 19:00 44 9 9 19 (NNE) 562 mstly clr none 20:00 44 6 5 354 (N) 443 clear none 21:00 42 8 7 354 (N) 648 clear none 22:00 42 11 6 288 (WNW) 522 clear none 23:00 42 11 9 245 (WSW) 559 clear none 00:00 42 11 11 244 (WSW) 486 clear none 01:00 42 10 12 252 (WSW) 479 clear none 02:00 41 10 16 228 (SW) 546 clear none 03:00 39 11 11 232 (SW) 538 clear none 04:00 41 12 11 251 (WSW) 604 clear none 05:00 42 12 12 290 (WNW) 629 clear none 06:00 40 12 11 291 (WNW) 598 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