Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20190508 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 11:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, May 08, 2019 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.Murphy R.McMillan APOLLO --:-- --:-- E.Ivezic B.Sipocz ARCTIC 21:06 22:57 E.Ivezic B.Sipocz ARCTIC 00:04 01:10 M.Prescott M.Prescott ARCTIC 01:10 05:15 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- AP01/R 19:59 20:59 0 1.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 UW01/R 20:59 01:10 0 1.1 0 0 1.3 1.8 0 0 NM05/R 01:10 06:00 0 0 0.8 0 4.0 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk Evening started with clouds and showers. We did not open until 21:00. We had another bout of clouds with potential rain shut us down from 23:00 until 00:00. We opened at 00:00. NM05 had some trouble with the filter wheel again, the PR has been updated. Finally got things sorted out around 02:00. We were open until the dawn. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- PROG INST FAILURE MODE TIME (SEDFNVOG) TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NM05 R I/HU 01:10 02:00 filter problems ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21:16 arctic 436( 753) 71 71 2.9 5.3 5.4 5.1 3.5 SDSS_r 1.17 22:49 arctic 583( 806) 24 55 3.6 3.3 3.8 3.1 3.3 SDSS_g 1.48 02:06 arctic 626( 867) -107 56 3.8 3.7 4.0 3.9 3.9 3250 1.59 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 53 28 21 237 (WSW) 829 cloudy rain 17:00 46 26 13 249 (WSW) 748 cloudy rain 18:00 43 31 14 263 (W) 847 cloudy lt rain 19:00 41 31 15 262 (W) 650 cloudy rain 20:00 38 31 16 319 (NW) ptly cldy none 21:00 38 31 11 330 (NNW) mstly clr none 22:00 37 32 18 326 (NW) mstly cldy none 23:00 38 28 15 305 (NW) 404 ptly cldy none 00:00 39 24 29 311 (NW) 359 clear none 01:00 39 23 20 323 (NW) 370 clear none 02:00 39 24 18 317 (NW) 428 clear none 03:00 37 25 13 293 (WNW) 353 clear none 04:00 38 25 13 294 (WNW) 326 clear none 05:00 35 28 1 14 (NNE) 295 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