Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20190623 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:56:22 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, June 23, 2019 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- E.Bellm E.Bellm DIS 20:24 01:05 A.Hedlund P.Gaulme Echelle 01:09 04:45 T.Murphy R.McMillan, T.Murphy APOLLO 04:52 05:50 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- UW10/R 20:24 01:10 0 0 0 0 4.3 0.4 0 0 NM06/R 01:10 04:48 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.6 0 0 AP01/R 04:48 05:48 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray gcam needed at restart during checkout. The weather was clear all night with the wind dropping nearly 0! Seeing was good to moderate. I smelled smoke at dawn when I closed but there appears to be nothing serious nearby. Wind was to the east near dawn. Around 04:40 a Trouble alarm went off "Trouble in system telco line 1" and I emailed Mark and silenced the alarm. ---------- Chapter 4: The Return and the Reaction While fretting over our lost friends and potential loss to the Venus community, in walked a group of cheering, slightly inebriated, overly excited scientist. 15 of the lost 20 had returned, including our NASA director! They made it out alive! They had followed the wrong trail and ended up at another hotel miles away. However, liking the look of the place, they stayed to have dinner and drinks before calling cabs back to the conference hotel. The second group was still missing and was comprised of a collaborator of mine and his students, one of which I help co-advise. Good grief, if they make it out I am going to give them so much razzing when the thesis defense rolls around. It was not until lunch time on the following day that we discovered everyone was accounted for and safe. One of the students in Group 2 had twisted their ankle, resulting in their slow progress back to the hotel. Unlike Group 1, they managed to find their way back to the conference hotel but did not arrive until nearly 10pm. I would like to point out that MY advisor was never foolish enough lead me on a 10 mile hike in the mountains without a flash light or compass. With everyone accounted for, it was time to get back to work. My talk was in 5 hours and, unsurprisingly, incomplete. I knew what I wanted to say but I also wanted to give it the proper flare in order to grab people’s attention. Being in Japan, there was only one theme I could possibly apply to my talk, a thing that I grew up with and love to this day. However, attempting to mix humor while conveying important information is a fine line to walk (and perhaps I have strayed too from that line this week’s nightlogs). Too much joking and your audience writes you off as buffoonish, lazy, or inept. No joking and it is just boring. All of this is especially intimidating to attempt in front of the entire Venus community. In fact, a colleague once advised me to never add humor to a talk because a woman who is smart, funny, and pretty was intimidating and would, therefore, be written off by the audience. Of course, I don’t listen to such nonsense. And so, with the second to last talk of the conference, in front of 100 sleeping scientists, I pranced up the stage. Clad in my home made Legend of Zelda dress, I proceeded to enthusiastically presented my Nintendo-infused, Super Mario Brothers themed, presentation centered on the Venusian and Martian ionosphere and my observations from APO. It was a HIT. For the first time all week, the entire room woke up. What all they remember of my science results I cannot say, but more than a few people come up to me asking where they could find my 8-bit font. And, of course, they wanted to learn more about APO. Success. :) With my talk over, I could finally sit down and relax with my colleagues. Too bad the buses were set to pick us up in the morning and take us to the airport. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21:03 dcamera 584( 1161) -138 35 14.8 14.8 15.3 14.6 14.4 -- 1.60 00:17 ecamera 485( 116) 124 71 13.7 13.4 14.1 13.3 13.2 -- 0.90 02:17 ecamera 467( 62) 234 79 13.8 12.8 13.4 12.6 13.2 -- 0.81 03:56 APOLLO 475( 1819) 68 55 11.4 12.4 13.2 12.2 11.8 530 1.70 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 63 22 9 253 (WSW) 410 clear none 17:00 68 25 15 252 (WSW) 405 clear none 18:00 66 25 14 280 (W) 406 clear none 19:00 64 23 18 247 (WSW) 429 clear none 20:00 60 23 8 271 (W) 391 clear none 21:00 59 21 11 254 (WSW) 464 clear none 22:00 58 19 14 225 (SW) 405 clear none 23:00 58 19 12 255 (WSW) 405 clear none 00:00 58 20 9 239 (WSW) 473 clear none 01:00 57 19 6 250 (WSW) 419 clear none 02:00 56 19 1 182 (S) 476 clear none 03:00 57 20 2 162 (SSE) 530 clear none 04:00 58 19 3 193 (SSW) 472 clear none 05:00 53 18 11 66 (ENE) 552 clear none 06:00 54 16 1 186 (S) 299 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