Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20211005
From: ajt@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Wed,  6 Oct 2021 12:24:11 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Tuesday, October 05, 2021
PROG  PI ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)
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CU06  H.Roberts         H.Roberts
NM05  M.Croom           M.Croom,R.McMillan,S.Tuttle,C.Sayres
                         ON-SKY
PROG  INSTRUMENT     START   FINISH
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CU06  DIS            18:51   01:00
NM05  KOSMOS         01:27   01:50
   PROG       SCHEDULED      WEATH     EQUIP     OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DTN  START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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CU06/R      18:51  01:10    0    0    0    0   6.3  0.0   0    0
NM05/R      01:10  06:53   5.4   0    0    0   0.3  0.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: A.Townsend
During checkout, ecam failed and gave an unexpected input error after hub startNubs. I went through troubleshooting steps on the wiki to bring it back up.
The optical cloud camera froze again Tuesday afternoon.
Clouds before sunset dissipated and we got on sky quickly, but with mediocre seeing.
We began KOSMOS setup and pointed at a bright standard star despite the clouds, and were able to get a couple spectra before closing at 01:50 due to radar on top of the thick clouds.
We got a little bit of light rain and the radar continued to look bad for the rest of the night. Russet used some of the bad weather to put KOSMOS through a few engineering tests to check internal lamps vs. truss lamps and sag, as well as exercising the calstage.
                    ------- FAILURE LOG -------
              FAILURE MODE     TIME
PROG   INSTR     TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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            ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt  FWHM
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 19:19 dcamera    647( 1312)  71  50  10.9 13.3 13.4 12.4 11.3   --  1.61
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    57    35      7   190    (S)    581 mstly cldy   none
     17:00    59    36     13   212  (SSW)    516  ptly cldy   none
     18:00    56    35     14   149  (SSE)    533 mstly clr    none
     19:00    52    35     18   123  (ESE)    562 mstly clr    none
     20:00    51    35     14   123  (ESE)    553  ptly cldy   none
     21:00    51    35     18   115  (ESE)    608  ptly cldy   none
     22:00    50    36     16   112  (ESE)    601  ptly cldy   none
     23:00    50    35     18   110  (ESE)    546 mstly cldy   none
     00:00    52    35     15   139   (SE)    579 mstly cldy   none
     01:00    51    35     16   132   (SE)    738 mstly cldy   none
     02:00    51    34     12   132   (SE)    674   cloudy     none
     03:00    51    35     10   138   (SE)    679   cloudy   lt rain
     04:00    51    34     12   178    (S)    659   cloudy     none
     05:00    50    33     14   167  (SSE)    886  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: 1.4.2
Current HUB version: v20171231_01
Current TUI version: 2.6.0