Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20240114 From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 14:09:11 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Sunday, January 14, 2024 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- AP01 S.Merkowitz R.McMillan BY01 E.Hintz S.Call JH02 Z.Rustamkulov Z.Rustamkulov UW02 P.Yoachim J.Jiang ON-SKY PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- AP01 APOLLO 17:27 18:28 BY01 TSPEC 18:29 19:30 JH02 KOSMOS 21:00 03:30 UW02 KOSMOS 03:30 06:50 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- AP01/R 17:27 18:27 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 BY01/R 18:27 21:00 0 1.6 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 JH02/R 21:00 03:30 0 0 0 0 6.2 0.3 0 0 UW02/R 03:30 06:57 0 0 0 0 3.5 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky At the start of the 2nd program tonight, all of my TUI menu items were greyed out (I needed to open the TSPEC slitviewer). I had to log out of my TUI session and close and re-open to fix the issue. 22:58 Kosmos got stuck while reading out exposure. Luckily I just needed to restart the icc. 20 mins lost. No telescope problems ------- FAILURE LOG ------- FAILURE MODE TIME PROG INSTR TI/SHU START FINISH DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JH02 K I/S 22:58 23:20 Kosmos got stuck writing data, restart icc. ---------------- FOCUS LOG --------------- Time Instrument Focus Az El Temp Strc Prim Sec Air filt FWHM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:30 APOLLO 500( 1727) -35 69 1.6 3.2 3.1 3.0 2.2 -- 2.20 18:40 tcamera 559( 1138) -51 55 0.7 0.5 1.3 0.7 0.8 Ks 1.36 21:27 kosmos 309( 649) 16 37 -1.0 -0.6 -0.1 -1.1 -1.0 -- 2.24 03:44 kosmos 534( 812) -12 57 -2.4 -1.6 -1.0 -2.5 -2.4 -- 1.55 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 39 17 18 248 (WSW) 373 clear none 17:00 37 18 20 239 (WSW) 434 clear none 18:00 33 17 20 249 (WSW) 2143 mstly clr none 19:00 33 17 16 259 (W) 874 ptly cldy none 20:00 32 17 19 267 (W) 572 cloudy none 21:00 31 18 9 274 (W) 4522 mstly clr none 22:00 31 18 14 356 (N) 2524 clear none 23:00 31 18 13 313 (NW) 1055 clear none 00:00 30 18 13 306 (NW) 1112 clear none 01:00 29 19 13 276 (W) 510 clear none 02:00 30 18 15 309 (NW) 264 clear none 03:00 29 18 16 311 (NW) 230 clear none 04:00 28 17 10 316 (NW) 302 clear none 05:00 28 17 6 353 (N) 218 clear none 06:00 29 17 12 303 (WNW) 208 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: 3.1.3