Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20180913 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:54:08 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, September 13, 2018 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Murphy R.McMillan apollo 19:20 20:15 D.Chojnowski D.Chojnowski ECHELLE 20:20 20:44 J.Jackiewicz M.Benbakoura echelle 20:44 22:08 B.Bolin B.Bolin nicfps 22:11 00:12 B.Bolin B.Bolin arctic 00:12 01:12 J.Keller R.Strauss,S.Haley arctic 01:12 06:30 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- AP01/R 19:20 20:20 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 NM02/R 20:20 20:40 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.3 0 0 NM01/R 20:40 22:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.5 0 0 UW03/R 22:10 01:10 0 0 0 0 3.0 0.0 0 0 CU03/R 01:10 06:38 0 0 0 0 5.5 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk Night started partly cloudy, then cleared during the apollo program. It was clear, calm, with decent seeing. Arctic was left on NA2 so I can run tests tomorrow afternoon. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:22 APOLLO 700( 2257) 56 53 15.6 18.7 18.9 18.3 16.2 530 1.80 22:19 NICFPS 605( 1602) 226 61 14.9 15.6 16.2 15.3 14.8 MK-H 0.79 00:20 arctic 655( 1257) -44 49 15.0 14.6 15.1 14.4 14.6 SDSS_r 1.14 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 75 44 7 238 (WSW) 337 ptly cldy none 17:00 68 42 4 233 (SW) 320 ptly cldy none 18:00 69 37 1 219 (SW) 310 ptly cldy none 19:00 61 44 9 88 (E) 374 clear none 20:00 59 44 10 129 (SE) 357 clear none 21:00 62 42 10 132 (SE) 373 clear none 22:00 59 44 15 128 (SE) 427 clear none 23:00 59 44 14 134 (SE) 482 clear none 00:00 59 42 12 139 (SE) 408 clear none 01:00 60 39 6 182 (S) 313 clear none 02:00 59 39 7 187 (S) 287 clear none 03:00 59 38 8 222 (SW) 298 clear none 04:00 59 38 6 185 (S) 325 clear none 05:00 57 38 5 184 (S) 349 clear none 06:00 58 37 2 193 (SSW) 334 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