Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20190103 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 14:26:17 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, January 03, 2019 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Prescott M.Prescott DIS 17:18 20:44 J.Wisniewski G.Stefansson ARCTIC 20:56 03:21 C.Gray C.Gray, S.Kovac Echelle 03:24 07:00 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM01/R 17:18 20:50 0 0 0 0 3.5 0.0 0 0 OU01/R 20:50 03:22 0 0 0 0 6.5 0.0 0 0 NM05/R 03:22 06:57 0 0 0 0 2.4 1.2 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray A great night! Perfectly clear and calm with moderate to good seeing. Apparently OU01's transit was *awesome*. Venus is getting very small... The echelle randomly read out all 0's early on into NM05's program. A reset in the echelle ICC solved the problem and everything was good after that. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:50 dcamera 982( 649) -30 48 -1.5 -0.8 -1.4 -1.0 -1.2 -- 1.40 21:15 arctic 967( 819) 7 72 2.3 0.1 0.7 0.6 1.4 sdss-i 1.10 03:03 arctic 758( 630) -56 69 -1.1 0.5 1.4 0.7 0.1 sdss-i 1.17 05:42 ecamera 586( -552) 51 24 1.8 -0.4 0.2 -0.6 0.7 ND5 2.22 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 29 7 17 15 (NNE) 97 clear none 17:00 32 -2 11 51 (NE) 85 clear none 18:00 29 0 19 18 (NNE) 68 clear none 19:00 31 -1 11 18 (NNE) 50 clear none 20:00 34 -2 22 46 (NE) 40 clear none 21:00 35 -2 14 41 (NE) 32 clear none 22:00 36 -1 10 64 (ENE) 51 clear none 23:00 38 1 4 65 (ENE) 31 clear none 00:00 37 1 0 231 (SW) 38 clear none 01:00 35 1 2 239 (WSW) 34 clear none 02:00 36 -1 6 277 (W) 36 clear none 03:00 32 0 5 360 (N) 56 clear none 04:00 32 3 13 5 (N) 61 clear none 05:00 34 1 12 3 (N) 55 clear none 06:00 35 3 5 57 (ENE) 43 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