Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20191201 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 13:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, December 01, 2019 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- CU05 J.Bally J.Bally UW02 S.Hawley G.Stefansson,J.Wisniewski UW10 Y.Notsu Y.Notsu ACTUAL PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- CU05 NICFPS 17:11 22:01 CU05 ECHELLE 22:03 22:56 UW02 ARCTIC 23:05 03:53 UW10 ECHELLE 03:58 06:37 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- CU05/R 17:06 23:00 0 0 0 0 1.1 4.8 0 0 UW02/R 23:00 04:00 0 0 0 0 5.0 0.0 0 0 UW10/R 04:00 06:40 0 0 0 0 2.7 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan A very productive night with mostly photometric skies and subarcsecond seeing all night. Everything worked well except for the outside OptiDew sensor, which is still being flaky. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:06 NICFPS 580( 1169) 99 54 5.9 6.0 6.0 5.9 5.8 Ks 0.87 20:14 NICFPS 417( 962) 156 57 6.1 5.2 5.5 4.7 5.6 H2 0.66 22:07 ecamera 404( -505) 177 61 6.7 5.1 5.8 4.7 5.8 ND3 0.85 23:19 arctic 429( 625) 88 33 4.1 4.7 5.4 4.5 5.0 Semrock 0.96 04:05 ecamera 409( -540) -29 58 4.8 4.2 4.7 4.1 5.2 ND1 0.73 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 44 9 5 347 (NNW) 33 clear none 17:00 42 14 7 348 (NNW) 16 clear none 18:00 43 20 11 16 (NNE) 10 clear none 19:00 43 19 10 350 (N) 8 clear none 20:00 43 18 7 359 (N) 10 clear none 21:00 42 18 5 351 (N) 13 clear none 22:00 43 18 3 339 (NNW) 8 clear none 23:00 43 12 5 248 (WSW) 12 clear none 00:00 42 17 8 202 (SSW) 10 clear none 01:00 42 16 7 186 (S) clear none 02:00 40 18 8 184 (S) 3 mstly clr none 03:00 40 14 10 185 (S) 9 mstly clr none 04:00 40 6 7 195 (SSW) 52 mstly clr none 05:00 41 0 9 211 (SSW) 77 mstly clr none 06:00 41 -1 8 219 (SW) 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