Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20190605 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 11:39:15 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, June 05, 2019 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Diamond-Stanic A.Diamond-Stanic DIS 20:30 23:24 D.Bizyaev D.Bizyaev DIS 01:15 05:20 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- NA01/O 20:17 01:10 1.8 0.2 0 0 0.7 2.2 0 0 NM09/R 01:10 05:46 0 0 0 0 4.6 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk We started out with some afternoon rain. Opened late due to threat of rain. It passed, as we opened around 20:30. Seeing was bad. We had to close again around 23:20 due to possible rain clouds coming up on us. They passed by 01:00, and we opened again. We stayed open all night, seeing improved somewhat. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:42 dcamera 419( 888) 104 49 10.5 12.9 12.8 12.6 10.8 - 1.83 22:16 dcamera 488( 836) -11 53 10.0 10.6 11.1 10.2 10.1 - 1.52 01:20 dcamera 502( 788) -38 50 9.7 9.4 9.8 9.4 9.4 - 1.34 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 56 34 12 264 (W) 1071 ptly cldy lt rain 17:00 60 36 16 246 (WSW) 1348 ptly cldy none 18:00 54 37 8 292 (WNW) 2805 ptly cldy none 19:00 51 35 10 357 (N) 964 ptly cldy none 20:00 50 33 7 336 (NNW) 571 mstly clr none 21:00 51 31 5 22 (NNE) 364 clear none 22:00 51 32 9 360 (N) 336 mstly clr none 23:00 50 33 7 338 (NNW) 330 mstly clr none 00:00 49 35 7 9 (N) 355 ptly cldy none 01:00 50 34 14 18 (NNE) 325 clear none 02:00 50 34 9 20 (NNE) 336 clear none 03:00 50 34 7 4 (N) 293 clear none 04:00 50 34 16 358 (N) 387 clear none 05:00 50 34 11 356 (N) 434 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