Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20220518 From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 11:10:10 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Wednesday, May 18, 2022 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- CU05 J.Dexter J.Dexter EN01 B.Ketzeback R.McMillan ON-SKY PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- CU05 TripleSpec 21:50 00:55 EN01 SHACK 01:05 01:55 EN01 NA2GDR 02:00 03:15 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- CU05/R 20:06 01:10 1.7 0 0 0 1.5 1.9 0 0 EN01/R 01:10 05:53 0 2.6 0 0 0.0 2.1 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: R.McMillan We had a smoke spike at the start of the night, which fortunately moved up above ground long enough to get some good data with Tspec, and also finish off some engineering tasks. Then the smoke came back. ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21:57 tcamera 311( 1545) 81 45 15.6 17.5 18.4 16.9 16.6 Ks 1.45 01:21 shack 350( 1812) 91 59 14.6 14.1 14.9 13.9 14.1 - 1.10 02:01 guider 404( 1352) 93 61 14.7 13.8 14.6 13.6 13.8 B 1.02 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 69 13 14 282 (WNW) 1733 clear none 17:00 69 12 11 270 (W) 1701 clear none 18:00 72 12 6 258 (WSW) 2088 clear none 19:00 65 9 12 249 (WSW) 2787 clear none 20:00 60 9 8 243 (WSW) 5142 clear smoke 21:00 60 9 11 243 (WSW) 5359 clear smoke 22:00 59 13 11 262 (W) 3023 clear none 23:00 59 14 9 262 (W) 2722 clear none 00:00 58 15 9 265 (W) 2888 clear none 01:00 59 16 10 279 (W) 2803 clear none 02:00 59 15 12 288 (WNW) 3129 clear none 03:00 59 15 14 297 (WNW) 4171 clear smoke 04:00 59 17 8 331 (NNW) 10208 clear smoke 05:00 59 17 11 329 (NNW) 4929 clear smoke 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