Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20200105 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 13:49:08 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, January 05, 2020 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- WY01 M.Brotherton J.McLane NA01 K.Flaherty R.McMillan, K.Flaherty NM06 C.Churchill B.Stemock,M.Croom ACTUAL PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- WY01 TSPEC 17:20 19:00 NA01 TripleSpec 19:00 23:58 NM06 DIS 00:16 06:30 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- WY01/R 17:20 19:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.7 0 0 NA01/R 19:00 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.2 0 0 NM06/R 00:10 06:58 0 0 0 0 3.9 2.9 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk Evening started clear. Seeing was not great. Still, it was a clear night with no problems. Seeing got a bit worse around 04:00 as winds started to turn east. Winds bounced east and north, with periods of good and bad seeing. We were open all night. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- FAILURE MODE TIME PROG INSTR TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:31 tcamera 491( 876) 110 52 5.4 8.1 8.0 7.4 5.7 - 1.24 18:02 tcamera 433( 801) 75 21 4.9 7.1 7.1 6.3 5.3 - 1.32 18:59 tcamera 585( 845) -54 58 5.1 5.5 6.0 5.2 5.3 - 1.31 18:59 tcamera 585( 845) -54 58 5.1 5.5 6.0 5.2 5.3 - 1.31 00:14 dcamera 421( 315) -31 53 3.1 2.5 3.7 3.1 3.2 - 1.75 04:21 dcamera 483( 333) 195 70 2.8 1.9 2.7 2.3 2.8 - 1.10 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 46 9 13 268 (W) 16 clear none 17:00 43 10 11 241 (WSW) 12 clear none 18:00 41 9 10 246 (WSW) 21 clear none 19:00 41 7 12 237 (WSW) 17 clear none 20:00 41 4 11 236 (SW) 19 clear none 21:00 39 4 8 262 (W) 28 clear none 22:00 40 4 8 264 (W) 26 clear none 23:00 39 9 11 265 (W) 72 clear none 00:00 38 3 9 259 (W) 34 clear none 01:00 39 0 12 288 (WNW) 48 clear none 02:00 38 -1 10 272 (W) 56 clear none 03:00 36 4 13 301 (WNW) 73 clear none 04:00 36 5 13 344 (NNW) 100 clear none 05:00 36 6 12 337 (NNW) 75 clear none 06:00 34 6 7 11 (N) 114 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 SOFTWARE ---------- Current TCC version: 1.2.4 Current HUB version: v20171231_01 Current TUI version: 2.6.0