Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20211019 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:44:25 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Tuesday, October 19, 2021 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- EN01 B.Ketzeback J.Dembicky, R.McMillan ON-SKY PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- EN01 Kosmos 18:34 21:46 EN01 Kosmos 23:50 01:17 EN01 NA2guider 02:10 02:28 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- EN01/W 18:34 07:03 0 0 0 0 0.0 12.5 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky ecam was hung tonight and not happy at all. I tried recovery from the wiki but it did not seem to work. I made it down to step 23, and it created the files, but I was not able to scp them to obs1 to view. I also could not take images with Echelle slitviewer either. It would just hang. Maybe this has something to do with the hub issues we saw today? PR submitted. At 03:49 we got a warning about a motor amp fault for M2. When I switched to the NA2 guider, no filters were in the drop down. It was a quick fix with a gmech parameters The Telescope:Pointing Data grid at the top is broken (not displayed) in the Kosmos version, 2.6.0 works fine. NA2 guider shutter was stuck, we saw star streaks. Then the gmech hung on us and would not allow us to move filters in place. 2021-10-20 08:06:42 APO.Russet-laptop 456 gmech f Exception=RuntimeError; Text="Current command and/or command timer exists" We tried using B, filter currently in place, and a 0.3s exp for the pointing model and watched the data as it came in for bad identifications. The shutter and gmech are NOT fixed. Out of 13 stars only 2 were correctly ID with the problems tonight. We decided to stop the model. Russet went over some of the finer points of using KOSMOS for tomorow nights run. We gave up around 03:45 since we could not get a pointing model and had accomplished the rest of our tasks for the night. ------- FAILURE LOG ------- FAILURE MODE TIME PROG INSTR TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EN01 K I/H 21:46 23:50 M2 motor amp fault. Bill fixed it EN01 NA2gdr I/H 01:20 --:-- Shutter sticking and we could not reset gmech, filter stuck. PR submitted ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:28 kosmos 475( 925) 85 70 8.9 9.7 9.4 9.4 9.2 -- 0.97 19:39 kimage 575( 1011) 83 72 8.9 9.4 9.3 9.1 9.1 -- 0.59 19:49 kosmos 650( 1074) 81 74 8.8 9.1 9.2 8.9 8.9 -- 0.74 00:26 kosmos 600( 961) 134 45 8.7 7.4 7.8 7.4 7.8 -- 1.25 01:26 guider 616( 1258) 136 54 8.3 7.2 7.7 7.1 7.4 R 1.23 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 51 31 15 277 (W) 1098 clear none 17:00 52 31 14 247 (WSW) 1131 clear none 18:00 50 31 17 265 (W) 1100 clear none 19:00 48 31 12 258 (WSW) 1112 clear none 20:00 47 29 18 257 (WSW) 1052 clear none 21:00 47 29 17 264 (W) 1004 clear none 22:00 48 28 15 265 (W) 957 mstly clr none 23:00 47 30 11 267 (W) 1024 mstly clr none 00:00 48 27 20 292 (WNW) 918 mstly clr none 01:00 47 25 13 301 (WNW) 837 mstly clr none 02:00 46 25 17 304 (NW) 899 mstly clr none 03:00 46 26 14 283 (WNW) 955 mstly clr 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: 1.4.2 Current HUB version: v20171231_01 Current TUI version: 2.6.0