Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20210820 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 12:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, August 20, 2021 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- WY01 A.Cavanaugh A.Cavanaugh JH05 T.Marriage M.Hilton ACTUAL PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- WY01 TSPEC 19:51 01:00 JH05 NICFPS 01:11 05:57 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- WY01/R 19:51 01:10 0 0 0 0 0.0 5.3 0 0 JH05/R 01:10 06:22 0 0 0 0 0.9 4.3 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray Holy cow, the seeing tonight! We started off with some clouds that were rather annoying, but they cleared up for the most part during second half. No problems tonight. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:10 tcamera 818( 1787) 98 25 15.4 17.8 17.6 17.6 15.2 MKs 1.75 20:08 tcamera 579( 1494) 90 26 15.1 16.7 16.4 16.2 15.7 MKs 1.28 21:44 tcamera 666( 1487) 76 46 15.2 15.1 15.4 14.6 14.6 MKs 0.78 00:17 NICFPS 640( 1666) 24 51 14.9 14.2 14.8 14.3 14.4 MKs 0.65 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 62 43 12 290 (WNW) 521 ptly cldy none 17:00 62 43 5 258 (WSW) 510 mstly clr none 18:00 64 42 10 273 (W) 522 mstly clr none 19:00 63 44 4 262 (W) 563 mstly clr none 20:00 59 43 5 263 (W) 479 ptly cldy none 21:00 59 42 2 228 (SW) 552 mstly cldy none 22:00 59 42 4 198 (SSW) 527 ptly cldy none 23:00 59 40 7 175 (S) 515 ptly cldy none 00:00 58 39 10 183 (S) 507 mstly clr none 01:00 59 40 9 184 (S) 487 mstly clr none 02:00 58 38 8 186 (S) 482 mstly clr none 03:00 58 39 7 194 (SSW) 468 mstly clr none 04:00 57 41 6 201 (SSW) 548 mstly clr none 05:00 58 41 5 242 (WSW) 556 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