Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20241116 From: tsutherland@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, November 16, 2024 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- UV01 A.Verbiscer A.Verbiscer AP01 S.Merkowitz R.McMillan,T.Sutherland UW02 P.Yoachim J.Jiang BY02 S.Call S.Call ON-SKY PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- UV01 ARCTIC --:-- --:-- AP01 APOLLO --:-- --:-- UW02 KOSMOS --:-- --:-- BY02 TripleSpec --:-- --:-- PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- UV01/R 17:10 00:10 0.4 6.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 AP01/R 00:10 01:10 0 1.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 UW02/R 01:10 04:57 0 3.8 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 BY02/R 04:57 06:27 0 1.5 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: T.Sutherland Thanks Jack and Russet for the remote support tonight! Had to restart gcamera nubs during instrument checkout. Ran the snow program at 1:00am and stopped it at 4:00am. Called it quits for the night at 4:30am. Clouds, dust, radar, wind kept us closed all night :( ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 44 17 31 226 (SW) 7604 cloudy dust 17:00 44 14 25 221 (SW) 20763 cloudy dust 18:00 44 15 26 216 (SW) 25460 cloudy dust 19:00 43 16 16 216 (SW) 12925 cloudy dust 20:00 42 16 21 223 (SW) 9814 cloudy dust 21:00 40 20 19 214 (SW) 9144 cloudy lt snow 22:00 40 14 19 249 (WSW) 4325 cloudy lt rain 23:00 37 28 23 238 (WSW) cloudy lt rain 00:00 37 21 11 308 (NW) 853 cloudy lt snow 01:00 33 29 8 259 (W) cloudy lt snow 02:00 34 32 15 257 (WSW) cloudy lt snow 03:00 34 32 9 269 (W) cloudy lt snow 04:00 34 33 12 215 (SW) cloudy lt snow 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: 3.1.5