Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20190319 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, March 19, 2019 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Klaene J.Dembicky DIS 19:22 21:05 B.Bolin B.Bolin ARCTIC 21:05 23:00 J.Bally J.Bally ARCTIC 23:00 23:26 J.Bally J.Bally NICFPS 23:26 00:21 J.Bally J.Bally TSPEC 00:21 01:08 S.Lepine S.Lepine ECHELLE 01:08 06:59 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- EN01/W 19:22 21:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.6 0 0 UW07/R 21:00 23:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.2 0 0 CU05/R 23:10 01:10 0 0 0 0.2 0.0 1.8 0 0 GS02/R 01:10 06:59 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky Gcam and Ecam both needed a little kick at checkout to get them working. Restarted hub Restart tcc NICFPS ICC didn't like the restart, I needed to restart the NICFPS ICC to fix. Reset following drive controllers: Alt, Az, NA2 rotator, Agile Rotator Zero'ed rotator -0.056 deg DIS slitviewer vs spectorgraph focus (red) X=1034 10s exp 686 (0) 3.588 711 3.237 736 3.446 Saturated 761 3.94 786 5.085 7s exp 786 5.288 761 4.393 736 4.147 711 3.522 686 (0) 3.568 661 4.032 Refocused 7s 540 6.532 565 5.504 590 (0) 4.721 615 5.081 640 4.39 665 4.992 690 5.03 Focus at end 584 (seeing stable at 1.43) Handed telescope over to the first science program at 21:05 When I went to focus NICFPS, filter wheel would not move. Said nicfps not connected. Looks like NICFPS ICC crashed again. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CU05 N I/S 05:37 05:47 NICFPS ICC crashed ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:44 dcamera 875( 886) 210 65 3.2 6.0 5.1 5.6 3.8 -- 1.42 19:53 dcamera 807( 801) 213 64 3.1 5.7 4.9 5.2 3.8 -- 1.37 20:06 dcamera 750( 721) 215 62 3.1 5.3 4.6 4.8 3.4 -- 1.59 20:16 dcamera 696( 651) 217 61 2.8 5.0 4.4 4.5 3.4 -- 1.42 20:26 dcamera 686( 632) 219 60 3.2 4.8 4.3 4.2 3.2 -- 1.33 20:51 dcamera 590( 506) 220 58 2.9 4.2 3.9 3.6 3.0 -- 1.45 21:02 dcamera 584( 492) 221 56 3.3 4.0 3.8 3.4 3.0 -- 1.43 21:21 arctic 702( 744) 224 52 3.2 3.7 3.7 3.1 2.9 SDSS_r 1.24 21:22 NA2gdr -750(37249) 224 52 3.1 3.6 3.6 3.1 2.9 clear 1.48 23:05 arctic 748( 716) -2 54 3.1 2.2 3.1 2.4 2.8 SDSS_r 1.04 23:54 NICFPS 730( 1038) 134 50 3.2 1.9 2.9 1.9 2.4 MK-J 1.03 00:39 tcamera 825( 820) 136 56 3.2 1.8 2.9 1.9 2.6 Ks 0.91 01:17 ecamera 649( -419) 232 71 3.4 1.7 2.8 1.8 2.5 ND1 0.80 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 42 20 9 268 (W) 260 clear none 17:00 44 21 7 263 (W) 277 clear none 18:00 43 18 9 262 (W) 273 clear none 19:00 40 17 3 240 (WSW) 242 clear none 20:00 37 15 6 188 (S) 239 clear none 21:00 38 12 5 190 (S) 214 clear none 22:00 37 15 4 189 (S) 225 clear none 23:00 38 15 2 206 (SSW) 222 clear none 00:00 37 14 1 237 (WSW) 226 ptly cldy none 01:00 38 16 1 237 (WSW) 284 ptly cldy none 02:00 32 18 15 69 (ENE) 458 mstly clr none 03:00 33 20 6 71 (ENE) 529 mstly clr none 04:00 37 16 2 337 (NNW) 328 mstly clr none 05:00 37 15 1 278 (W) 263 clear none 06:00 38 14 1 245 (WSW) 254 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