Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20190729 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 12:32:21 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Monday, July 29, 2019 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- J.Roberts J.Roberts,Z.Berta-Thompson DIS 20:30 05:30 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- CU08/R 20:13 06:07 0 0 0 0 8.3 1.7 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk Variable night. Partly cloudy, then clearing after sunset. Seeing was fair. Clouds came by and almost completely clouded us out from 22:00-00:00. Then it cleared, until another bunch of clouds formed over us around 04:30. Despite the clouds, we were open all night. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:40 dcamera 596( 1258) 15 56 15.6 18.3 19.4 18.0 16.3 - 1.75 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 65 47 12 101 (E) 207 ptly cldy none 17:00 65 46 9 121 (ESE) 166 mstly clr none 18:00 64 47 16 81 (E) 206 clear none 19:00 64 47 16 80 (E) 190 clear none 20:00 61 48 5 108 (ESE) 237 clear none 21:00 60 49 10 93 (E) 252 ptly cldy none 22:00 59 50 6 103 (ESE) 352 mstly cldy none 23:00 58 50 13 113 (ESE) 339 mstly cldy none 00:00 58 50 19 81 (E) 442 ptly cldy none 01:00 57 50 23 79 (E) 541 mstly clr none 02:00 57 49 18 85 (E) 1010 mstly clr none 03:00 56 48 16 117 (ESE) 1002 mstly clr none 04:00 56 48 1 156 (SSE) 1115 ptly cldy none 05:00 55 49 10 118 (ESE) 1025 mstly cldy none 06:00 57 47 12 136 (SE) 1124 mstly cldy 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