Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20191028 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:56:21 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, October 28, 2019 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- JH02 S.Cheng S.Cheng FG01 D.Buzasi D.Buzasi ACTUAL PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- JH02 DIS 19:00 01:08 FG01 ECHELLE 01:12 06:30 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- JH02/R 18:25 01:10 0 0 0 0 6.0 0.7 0 0 FG01/R 01:10 07:10 0 0 0 0 6.0 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk Evening started with high thin clouds, some high winds and borderline dust. We opened nonetheless. Seeing was fair. Winds and dust returned to normal. Seeing improved around 21:30. Continued to be partly cloudy all night, and we stayed open all night. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:57 dcamera 433( 530) 85 70 4.4 7.0 7.1 6.8 5.3 - 1.42 20:23 dcamera 413( 432) 57 53 5.1 5.2 5.7 4.8 4.8 - 1.71 21:44 dcamera 491( 505) 5 52 5.7 5.1 5.5 5.1 5.6 - 1.19 01:15 ecamera 409( -513) -21 57 5.1 4.8 5.3 4.9 5.0 clear 1.08 04:20 ecamera 454( -522) -53 66 3.8 3.8 4.3 3.8 3.8 clear 0.90 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 48 22 25 255 (WSW) 4330 mstly clr none 17:00 46 20 21 265 (W) 4583 mstly clr none 18:00 43 19 18 261 (W) 3367 mstly clr none 19:00 41 19 18 224 (SW) 2682 ptly cldy none 20:00 41 19 19 224 (SW) 2134 ptly cldy none 21:00 42 21 23 242 (WSW) 1545 ptly cldy none 22:00 42 20 19 256 (WSW) 1193 ptly cldy none 23:00 41 20 15 260 (W) 1171 ptly cldy none 00:00 42 19 18 246 (WSW) 1179 ptly cldy none 01:00 42 19 9 249 (WSW) 1179 ptly cldy none 02:00 40 18 19 248 (WSW) 1284 ptly cldy none 03:00 40 18 16 260 (W) 1172 ptly cldy none 04:00 39 20 16 254 (WSW) 1177 ptly cldy none 05:00 38 24 19 237 (WSW) 998 ptly cldy none 06:00 37 24 23 228 (SW) 993 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 SOFTWARE ---------- Current TCC version: 1.2.4 Current HUB version: v20171231_01 Current TUI version: 2.6.0