Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20190925 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:18:46 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, September 25, 2019 ACTUAL ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- C.Kobulnicky J.Rothenberger DIS 19:20 01:00 J.DerKacy J.DerKacy DIS 01:00 06:00 INST SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ---------------------------------------------------------------- WY01/R 19:04 01:10 0 0 0 0 6.1 0.0 0 0 OU02/R 01:10 06:46 0 0 0 0 3.1 2.5 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk Evening started out mostly clear. Had to restart the monitor server (35m-display) due to frequent freezes and crashes. Seeing was decent, weather cooperated. A half observer finished 10 minutes early, B half took over. We stayed 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:28 dcamera 302( 938) 98 50 14.1 18.3 17.6 18.1 15.8 - 1.45 20:29 dcamera 165( 704) -22 55 14.1 16.2 15.7 15.5 14.2 - 1.12 21:25 dcamera 301( 778) -47 59 14.1 15.0 15.1 14.6 14.4 - 1.12 01:02 dcamera 361( 741) -118 45 13.4 12.7 13.3 12.4 12.7 - 1.19 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 65 46 6 262 (W) ptly cldy none 17:00 63 44 8 259 (W) ptly cldy none 18:00 60 45 9 304 (NW) ptly cldy none 19:00 57 43 5 346 (NNW) mstly clr none 20:00 57 42 5 353 (N) mstly clr none 21:00 58 41 5 260 (W) mstly clr none 22:00 58 42 6 234 (SW) mstly clr none 23:00 57 43 1 190 (S) mstly clr none 00:00 57 43 7 193 (SSW) mstly clr none 01:00 56 45 7 203 (SSW) mstly clr none 02:00 54 45 6 205 (SSW) mstly clr none 03:00 55 46 8 200 (SSW) mstly clr none 04:00 56 45 7 217 (SW) clear none 05:00 54 45 3 271 (W) clear none 06:00 53 42 8 292 (WNW) 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