Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20190318 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:44:59 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, March 18, 2019 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- D.Chojnowski D.Chojnowski ECHELLE 19:22 20:35 G.Stringfellow G.Stringfellow TSPEC 20:35 22:38 D.Choinowski D.Choinowski Echelle 22:38 01:10 C.Sakari C.Sakari ECHELLE 01:10 03:55 A.Hedlund P.Gaulme Echelle 03:55 06:50 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM04/R 19:22 22:22 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.0 0 0 CU07/R 22:22 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.8 0 0 UW14/R 01:10 04:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.8 0 0 NM02/R 04:00 07:00 0 0 0 0 0.5 2.5 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky TSPEC was giving me a blank image at checkout. Leach controller needed to be cycled to fix. NM04 and CU07 were doing some internal time swapping tonight to maximize observing of setting targets. No problems otherwise tonight. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:37 ecamera 835( -137) 311 56 -0.1 3.4 3.0 3.5 0.9 ND1 1.61 20:43 tcamera 834( 798) 33 59 -1.4 0.7 0.9 0.4 -0.9 Ks 1.19 22:47 ecamera 634( -542) -46 44 -0.4 -0.7 -0.4 -1.2 -0.8 clear 1.58 01:21 ecamera 676( -500) 115 82 0.7 -0.4 0.2 -0.4 0.6 ND4 0.84 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 36 24 6 278 (W) 418 mstly cldy none 17:00 39 24 6 258 (WSW) 375 mstly cldy none 18:00 40 24 7 245 (WSW) 354 ptly cldy none 19:00 35 22 7 238 (WSW) 361 ptly cldy none 20:00 31 21 7 185 (S) 481 clear none 21:00 30 22 8 95 (E) 427 clear none 22:00 31 21 8 6 (N) 346 clear none 23:00 30 20 1 316 (NW) 363 clear none 00:00 30 21 6 1 (N) 376 clear none 01:00 33 19 12 34 (NE) 331 clear none 02:00 32 21 2 201 (SSW) 390 clear none 03:00 31 20 5 187 (S) 375 clear none 04:00 30 22 5 191 (S) 341 clear none 05:00 30 22 2 203 (SSW) clear none 06:00 32 19 1 326 (NW) 390 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