Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20191019 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 13:05:13 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, October 19, 2019 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- NM01 J.Holtzman J.Holtzman+students AP01 T.Murphy R.McMillan GS03 S.Lepine N.Hejazi ACTUAL PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- NM01 ARCTIC 18:35 21:30 NM01 Eyepiece 21:35 22:00 NM01 Echelle 22:05 01:04 AP01 APOLLO 01:07 02:09 GS03 ECHELLE 02:14 06:25 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- NM01/O 18:34 01:10 0 0 0 0 4.2 2.4 0 0 AP01/W 01:10 02:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 GS03/R 02:10 07:03 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.9 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Clear all night with excellent seeing (contrary to forecast). We got lots of observing done. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- FAILURE MODE TIME PROG INSTR TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:07 arctic 463( 835) 104 64 7.1 9.0 8.5 8.3 7.2 sdss-r 0.70 02:21 ecamera 394( -463) 79 65 6.8 6.3 6.8 6.4 6.7 ND2 0.79 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 50 19 8 262 (W) 748 clear none 17:00 48 17 6 265 (W) 910 clear none 18:00 47 19 5 256 (WSW) 813 clear none 19:00 44 17 13 210 (SSW) 921 clear none 20:00 45 18 13 218 (SW) 1181 clear none 21:00 45 22 14 207 (SSW) 1166 clear none 22:00 45 22 13 251 (WSW) 1112 clear none 23:00 45 18 11 243 (WSW) 1087 clear none 00:00 45 21 16 252 (WSW) 1163 clear none 01:00 45 21 13 260 (W) 1153 clear none 02:00 44 25 17 267 (W) 1274 clear none 03:00 45 23 17 266 (W) 1147 clear none 04:00 44 22 16 259 (W) 1309 clear none 05:00 44 22 14 267 (W) 1293 clear none 06:00 44 24 14 268 (W) 1338 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 SOFTWARE ---------- Current TCC version: 1.2.4 Current HUB version: v20171231_01 Current TUI version: 2.6.0