Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20250131 From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 13:27:50 +0000 (UTC) Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Friday, January 31, 2025 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- AP02 S.Merkowitz R.McMillan UW05 G.Khullar G.Khullar OU03 G.Garcia G.Garcia ON-SKY PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- AP02 APOLLO 17:49 18:45 UW05 KOSMOS 18:49 00:11 OU03 KOSMOS 00:11 06:07 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- AP02/R 17:44 18:44 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 UW05/R 18:44 00:10 0 0 0 0 3.9 1.6 0 0 OU03/R 00:10 06:49 0 0 0 0 6.6 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: C.Gray gcam needed an init during checkout Right as we were about to slew to the moon TUI froze for everyone. Disconnecting and reconnecting didn't help. After restarting tron it was fine. We noticed that there were a lot of failed logins being attempted but Russet didn't know if this was due to some script or a hack. The sky was mostly clear tonight, only a few light clouds in B half. We had excellent seeing, being subarcsec all night. I seem to have not recorded the first kosmos focus but it was 0.7" ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:01 APOLLO 350( 1695) -72 52 3.8 5.5 4.6 5.2 4.1 530 1.00 22:55 klow 325( 680) 121 42 1.5 0.8 2.1 0.9 1.2 -- 1.00 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 42 8 4 194 (SSW) 753 clear none 17:00 40 5 3 210 (SSW) 616 clear none 18:00 39 1 8 191 (S) 370 clear none 19:00 38 -5 7 183 (S) 441 clear none 20:00 38 -8 7 190 (S) 341 clear none 21:00 37 -8 6 188 (S) 361 clear none 22:00 36 -10 7 197 (SSW) 307 clear none 23:00 35 -7 9 210 (SSW) 381 clear none 00:00 34 -6 8 228 (SW) 425 clear none 01:00 33 -8 6 259 (W) 353 clear none 02:00 35 -12 9 273 (W) 241 mstly clr none 03:00 38 -14 10 260 (W) 92 mstly clr none 04:00 36 -15 10 259 (W) 145 clear none 05:00 36 -16 15 271 (W) 207 mstly clr none 06:00 35 -17 14 265 (W) 164 mstly clr 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