Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20250114
From: ajt@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:55:56 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Tuesday, January 14, 2025
PROG  PI ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)
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EN01  B.Ketzeback       R.McMillan,A.Townsend
                         ON-SKY
PROG  INSTRUMENT     START   FINISH
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EN01  ARCTIC         17:30   23:24
EN01  SHACK          23:30   00:50
EN01  NA2GDR         01:00   04:27
EN01  ECHELLE        04:30   05:45
   PROG       SCHEDULED      WEATH     EQUIP     OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DTN  START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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EN01/W      17:28  06:57    0    0    0    0   0.7 12.8   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: A.Townsend,R.McMillan
Seeing varied from very good to fairly bad, but we had no clouds all night!
Engineering Tasks:
- Restarted hub and tcc
- restarted Dome mac
- zeroed NA2 rotator
- reset axis controllers
- Throughput: SA92-282, Feige 22, SA95-193, SA98-653, Rubin 149 each at multiple altitudes
- Watched the Firefly Blue Ghost Mission successfully launch
- Shack Hartmann collimation check
- Pointing model; implemented
- Check pointing on NA2, NA1
Finished up around morning twilight.
                    ------- FAILURE LOG -------
              FAILURE MODE     TIME
PROG   INSTR     TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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            ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt  FWHM
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 18:20 arctic   197(  501)  21  61  -4.2 -2.0 -3.0 -3.3 -3.8   SDSS_g  3.02
 20:57 arctic   307(  483) -53  51  -3.8 -4.9 -4.4 -5.1 -4.5   SDSS_i  1.25
 23:52 shack   250(  960) 141  55  -4.3 -5.2 -4.5 -5.3 -5.1   --  2.20
 01:41 NA2gdr 38868(38868)  89  62  -3.9 -5.8 -5.1 -6.2 -5.5   B  1.40
 04:37 ecamera  301( -588) 265  79  -2.3 -3.8 -3.1 -3.5 -2.8   ND5  0.60
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    27    14      1   141   (SE)    843    clear     none
     17:00    25    14      8    19  (NNE)    829    clear     none
     18:00    25     9      8    81    (E)    601    clear     none
     19:00    23    18      6   101    (E)    526    clear     none
     20:00    24     9      4   189    (S)    420    clear     none
     21:00    26    -1      2   204  (SSW)    297    clear     none
     22:00    25    -4      3   246  (WSW)    272    clear     none
     23:00    24    -2      3   250  (WSW)    279    clear     none
     00:00    25    -2      6   305   (NW)    259    clear     none
     01:00    24    -2      4   271    (W)    223    clear     none
     02:00    25    -1      9   334  (NNW)    233    clear     none
     03:00    26    -1     10   321   (NW)    278    clear     none
     04:00    28    -5     11   314   (NW)    284    clear     none
     05:00    28    -6      9   302  (WNW)    243    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: 3.1.5