Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20221020 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:26:17 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Thursday, October 20, 2022 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- WY03 C.Kobulnicky E.Cook,N.Patten CU01 A.Kowalski C.Canas ON-SKY PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- WY03 KOSMOS 18:33 20:36 WY03 Echelle 20:36 00:01 WY03 KOSMOS 00:01 00:57 CU01 ARCTIC 01:11 06:44 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- WY03/R 18:33 01:10 0 0 0 0 6.6 0.0 0 0 CU01/R 01:10 07:04 0 0 0 0 2.1 3.8 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky, R.McMillan Excellent 0.66 arc sec seeing with Echelle when we focused at 20:40! Jack had a family emergency so Russet took over the last couple hours tonight. During morning fills, Russet tested and restored the altitude slew parameters to their default values. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:01 klow 313( 800) -23 77 8.5 10.5 10.9 10.1 8.8 -- 1.44 20:41 ecamera 425( -240) 186 72 8.5 8.3 9.1 8.0 7.9 Clear 0.66 22:52 ecamera 401( -301) 231 40 7.8 7.1 7.9 6.9 7.2 Clear 0.79 00:11 klow 434( 751) 229 46 7.6 6.5 7.3 6.3 6.8 -- 1.10 01:31 arctic 345( 671) 137 55 7.0 5.8 6.5 5.5 6.4 SDSS_r 1.06 01:32 NA2gdr -1544(36455) 137 55 7.3 5.8 6.5 5.5 6.2 clear 1.24 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 56 19 11 196 (SSW) 154 clear none 17:00 53 16 9 215 (SW) 110 clear none 18:00 50 17 7 207 (SSW) 115 clear none 19:00 48 4 9 187 (S) 64 clear none 20:00 47 25 13 187 (S) 307 clear none 21:00 47 27 13 182 (S) 402 clear none 22:00 46 24 11 184 (S) 461 clear none 23:00 46 14 9 186 (S) 249 clear none 00:00 46 10 7 193 (SSW) 161 clear none 01:00 44 18 7 225 (SW) 484 clear none 02:00 46 9 8 265 (W) 301 clear none 03:00 45 15 12 286 (WNW) 311 clear none 04:00 44 18 14 305 (NW) 318 clear none 05:00 42 27 5 331 (NNW) 450 clear none 06:00 43 27 17 321 (NW) 506 clear 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