Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20210619 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2021 11:38:53 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, June 19, 2021 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- AP01 S.Merkowitz R.McMillan NM08 E.Nielsen E.Nielsen, H.Gallamore CU07 J.Bally J.Bally ACTUAL PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- AP01 APOLLO 20:14 20:58 NM08 ECHELLE 21:04 01:03 CU07 NICFPS 01:05 05:13 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- AP01/R 20:23 21:23 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 NM08/R 21:23 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.8 0 0 CU07/R 01:10 05:47 0 0 0 0 3.1 1.5 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky At instrument change, both NICFPS and NA2 guider gave me fits and didn't want to take exposures. John had just finished with a NICFPS exposure so I don't know why it started acting up suddenly. An init quickly fixed NICFPS and I also restarted gcam, which fixed that camera. The gcam problem came back the next exposure. I did another restart fixed gcam. No problems after this. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20:19 APOLLO 550( 2272) 6 46 21.1 23.4 23.2 23.0 21.5 -- 1.20 21:07 ecamera 589( 445) -145 66 20.5 21.5 21.9 20.8 20.5 ND2 0.85 01:19 NICFPS 337( 1702) 17 52 19.8 19.4 19.9 19.2 19.4 H2r-2.13 0.62 01:22 NA2gdr 2380(48380) 16 52 19.5 19.3 19.9 19.2 19.4 clear 1.00 01:50 NICFPS 335( 1714) -55 36 19.2 19.4 19.9 19.4 19.5 BrGr-2.17 0.65 04:22 NICFPS 349( 1653) -120 80 19.0 18.3 18.9 18.2 18.6 FeII-1.64 0.79 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 79 34 5 186 (S) 750 clear none 17:00 77 34 12 186 (S) 774 clear none 18:00 79 35 19 207 (SSW) 802 clear none 19:00 75 33 14 235 (SW) 852 mstly clr none 20:00 70 29 12 198 (SSW) 648 mstly clr none 21:00 69 28 15 179 (S) 751 clear none 22:00 68 30 17 169 (S) 742 clear none 23:00 69 28 13 187 (S) 711 clear none 00:00 68 27 11 189 (S) 679 clear none 01:00 67 27 13 218 (SW) 715 mstly clr none 02:00 67 28 13 217 (SW) 721 ptly cldy none 03:00 65 29 14 216 (SW) 716 ptly cldy none 04:00 66 28 8 256 (WSW) 803 ptly cldy none 05:00 66 32 10 266 (W) 1240 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