Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20201009 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:16:06 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, October 09, 2020 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- WY01 C.Kobulnicky C.Kobulnicky CU02 Z.Berta-Thompson J.Libby-Roberts ACTUAL PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- WY01 ECHELLE 18:44 01:10 CU02 ARCTIC 01:14 06:50 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- WY01/R 18:45 01:10 0 0 0.3 0 5.0 1.1 0 0 CU02/R 01:10 06:56 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk Evening started clear and calm. Seeing was very good. Pointing in echelle was off by about an arc minute. We spent 17 minutes testing and correcting the pointing. The rest of the night was uneventfuly and very productive. We were open all night. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- FAILURE MODE TIME PROG INSTR TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WY01 E T/H 19:15 19:32 needed to change the tilt coefs for echelle. ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:48 ecamera 529( 210) 76 62 15.0 17.6 17.6 17.5 15.3 ND3 0.87 20:04 ecamera 392( -6) -146 49 15.1 15.8 16.1 15.1 14.9 clear 0.91 21:05 ecamera 422( -13) -144 42 14.8 14.9 15.5 14.4 14.4 ND1 1.00 23:44 ecamera 432( -70) -117 40 13.9 13.4 14.2 13.2 13.6 clear 0.99 01:10 arctic 505( 1081) -49 53 14.0 13.2 13.9 13.1 13.7 SDSS_g 0.78 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 66 22 15 261 (W) 1171 clear none 17:00 65 23 12 249 (WSW) 1210 clear none 18:00 63 19 4 257 (WSW) 1164 clear none 19:00 59 17 9 286 (WNW) 1163 clear none 20:00 59 17 8 260 (W) 1311 clear none 21:00 59 17 9 251 (WSW) 1380 clear none 22:00 58 16 6 259 (W) 982 clear none 23:00 58 17 5 254 (WSW) 855 clear none 00:00 57 17 7 214 (SW) 787 clear none 01:00 57 17 6 261 (W) 784 clear none 02:00 57 17 8 263 (W) 931 clear none 03:00 56 16 11 294 (WNW) 935 clear none 04:00 56 14 8 283 (WNW) 919 clear none 05:00 55 14 9 296 (WNW) 884 clear none 06:00 55 14 8 268 (W) 808 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