Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20191020 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:08:04 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, October 20, 2019 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- NM01 J.Holtzman J.Holtzman+students GS02 D.Gies K.Lester JH09 C.Lisse B.Bolin,C.Lisse ACTUAL PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- NM01 DIS 19:17 21:26 NM01 TSPEC 21:39 01:12 GS02 ECHELLE 01:15 03:33 JH09 ARCTIC 03:49 06:48 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- NM01/O 18:33 01:10 0 0 0 0 5.2 1.3 0 0 GS02/R 01:10 03:40 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.5 0 0 JH09/R 03:40 07:03 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.4 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan Another lovely clear night. Seeing was a bit more variable tonight, but at least for first half it remained better than the Clear Sky Clock forecast. After that it was fairly bad. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:24 dcamera 438( 647) 81 67 7.2 9.4 9.3 9.1 7.7 - 1.56 21:47 tcamera 493( 768) 51 66 5.8 5.9 6.6 5.7 5.8 Ks 1.10 01:20 ecamera 374( -589) -120 79 4.4 4.2 4.7 4.1 4.2 Clear 1.83 03:56 arctic 436( 541) 47 46 3.1 3.1 3.7 3.1 3.2 sdss-r 2.66 04:57 arctic 454( 519) 39 48 3.1 2.3 3.3 2.8 3.2 sdss-r 2.79 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 52 18 21 275 (W) 664 clear none 17:00 50 14 25 287 (WNW) 564 clear none 18:00 50 14 16 279 (W) 798 clear none 19:00 46 4 4 349 (N) 1044 clear none 20:00 44 1 2 163 (SSE) 530 clear none 21:00 43 3 10 4 (N) 688 clear none 22:00 42 5 21 13 (NNE) 699 clear none 23:00 42 1 18 22 (NNE) 448 clear none 00:00 42 1 16 339 (NNW) 634 clear none 01:00 40 2 12 354 (N) 700 clear none 02:00 39 1 12 353 (N) 674 clear none 03:00 40 -1 8 26 (NNE) 696 clear none 04:00 38 2 8 4 (N) 795 clear none 05:00 39 3 17 347 (NNW) 744 clear none 06:00 37 2 19 345 (NNW) 775 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