Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20200208 From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2020 13:02:41 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, February 08, 2020 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- WY01 M.Brotherton J.McLane OU06 N.Reynolds N.Reynolds GS02 J.Robinson J.Robinson ACTUAL PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- WY01 TSPEC 17:47 23:51 OU06 TSPEC 19:31 23:51 GS02 ARCTIC 00:04 06:00 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- WY01/R 17:51 19:31 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.7 0 0 OU06/R 19:31 00:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 4.6 0 0 GS02/R 00:10 06:44 0 0 0 0 0.0 6.6 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk Evening started with mostly clear skies, some high thin clouds. Seeing was poor, but improved as the night went on. It was never perfectly clear, we had high thin clouds passing through all night. 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:10 tcamera 350( 805) 156 85 4.2 6.7 6.5 6.7 4.4 1.8 19:34 tcamera 326( 678) 6 63 4.1 4.3 4.8 3.9 3.9 2.08 00:09 arctic 546( 599) -12 56 3.2 2.1 3.1 2.6 3.0 SDSS_r 0.92 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 45 14 12 276 (W) 69 mstly clr none 17:00 42 21 13 223 (SW) 242 mstly clr none 18:00 39 19 10 195 (SSW) 308 mstly clr none 19:00 40 15 15 233 (SW) 272 mstly clr none 20:00 40 14 14 237 (WSW) 179 mstly clr none 21:00 40 14 13 259 (W) 168 mstly clr none 22:00 39 15 17 238 (WSW) 174 mstly clr none 23:00 37 18 18 217 (SW) 311 mstly clr none 00:00 37 18 20 263 (W) 305 mstly clr none 01:00 37 17 16 255 (WSW) 274 mstly clr none 02:00 34 18 21 260 (W) 276 mstly clr none 03:00 34 18 16 267 (W) 308 mstly clr none 04:00 33 17 11 268 (W) 279 mstly clr none 05:00 33 15 16 266 (W) 252 ptly cldy none 06:00 33 13 19 273 (W) 267 ptly 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 SOFTWARE ---------- Current TCC version: 1.2.4 Current HUB version: v20171231_01 Current TUI version: 2.6.0