Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20190120 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:12:28 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, January 20, 2019 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- G.Stringfellow G.Stringfellow ECHELLE 17:33 19:08 T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO 19:11 01:05 Brotherton,M. A.Cavanaugh Tspec 01:08 06:55 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- CU07/R 17:33 19:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.6 0 0 AP01/R 19:10 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 6.0 0 0 WY02/R 01:10 06:55 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray The night started with clouds that, while thick, could still be punched through. Things thinned out for the EPIC SUPER BLOOD WOLF MOOOON ECLIPSE!! YEEAAAHH!!! We had way too much fun shooting the laser. Clouds were annoying the rest of the night and the wind starting kicking up as well, but not enough to cause us to close. Something happened with the Tspec rotator around 1:10am, during switch. It was not rotating properly even though no errors were present. A rot init was done and then things were fine. UT Bcam Bpump Rcam Rpump 01:30 3.3E-6 5.5E-7 1.1e-6 3.9e-8 06:15 3.2e-6 4.5e-7 8.19e-7 1.7e-8 ------- Too tired to come up with a whole parody, so here is a little werewolf song... I saw a moonwolf with a laser menu in his hand, Rising through the trees of Sunspot with no rain, He was looking for a light that couldn't be shook, Glowing like a big dish now starts to wane, Aaoooooo Wolf moon a huntin' Aaoooooo Aaoooooo blood moon a huntin' Aaoooooo The laser's bouncing around four hours more, Getting those photons in, Doctor ladies were integrating late all night Shooting the laser again Pew-PEEWWW Lasers a running Pew-PEEEWWWW Pew-PEEWWW Lasers a running Pew-PEEEWW ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:44 tcamera 1107( 1466) 169 60 8.9 9.0 8.0 9.1 8.8 Ks 1.31 19:32 APOLLO 650( 1681) 103 35 7.4 8.1 8.4 7.9 7.7 530 1.50 01:19 tcamera 846( 1002) -161 40 4.9 4.7 5.2 4.7 4.6 Ks 1.16 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 50 2 11 270 (W) 11 cloudy none 17:00 47 0 13 287 (WNW) 7 cloudy none 18:00 47 0 16 289 (WNW) 3 cloudy none 19:00 49 1 12 278 (W) 5 ptly cldy none 20:00 41 5 10 206 (SSW) 11 ptly cldy none 21:00 40 6 9 215 (SW) 13 mstly clr none 22:00 42 5 13 246 (WSW) 10 mstly clr none 23:00 41 5 6 217 (SW) 32 ptly cldy none 00:00 41 8 15 239 (WSW) 99 ptly cldy none 01:00 41 6 19 263 (W) 85 mstly cldy none 02:00 40 7 19 244 (WSW) 119 mstly cldy none 03:00 39 9 18 257 (WSW) 194 mstly cldy none 04:00 38 11 25 236 (SW) 225 ptly cldy none 05:00 39 12 28 281 (W) 184 ptly cldy none 06:00 38 13 23 267 (W) 223 ptly cldy 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