Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20180330 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 12:39:18 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, March 30, 2018 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- D.Chojnowski D.Chojnowski ECHELLE 19:31 20:31 B.Morris M.Ageros ECHELLE 20:31 22:35 G.Wallerstein G.Wallerstein ECHELLE 22:35 01:06 K.Schlaufman K.Schlaufman ECHELLE 01:06 06:37 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM04/R 19:31 20:31 0 0 0 0.1 0.0 0.9 0 0 UW13/R 20:31 22:35 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.1 0 0 UW12/R 22:35 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.6 0 0 JH02/R 01:10 06:44 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.6 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk Good weather. Clear and good seeing. Echelle started giving all zeros 10 exposures into NN04's program. The ICC was restarted. It performed normally afterwards. Weather stayed good, we observed all night. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NM04 E I/S 19:51 19:58 Echelle ICC needed restart ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:31 ecamera 438( -192) 81 45 8.2 10.0 9.9 9.6 8.7 ND4 0.87 20:33 ecamera 425( -274) -41 42 8.4 8.6 9.1 8.5 8.4 ND4 0.85 01:07 ecamera 396( -338) -42 20 7.6 7.5 8.1 7.6 7.6 ND3 1.08 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 50 9 15 253 (WSW) 733 clear none 17:00 53 11 18 214 (SW) 616 clear none 18:00 53 10 13 209 (SSW) 801 clear none 19:00 50 10 17 242 (WSW) 550 clear none 20:00 47 9 16 234 (SW) 708 clear none 21:00 47 8 16 220 (SW) 680 clear none 22:00 47 8 12 259 (W) 524 clear none 23:00 47 8 15 250 (WSW) 482 clear none 00:00 47 9 20 268 (W) 562 clear none 01:00 46 10 11 265 (W) 513 clear none 02:00 46 11 14 272 (W) 489 clear none 03:00 45 14 15 265 (W) 574 clear none 04:00 44 14 6 287 (WNW) 584 clear none 05:00 44 15 13 282 (WNW) 553 clear none 06:00 44 14 10 332 (NNW) 553 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