Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope Night Log Saturday, March 21, 2026 PROG PI ASTRONOMER OBSERVER(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------- AP01 S.Merkowitz R.McMillan, T.Sutherland NM06 W.Roberson E.Nielsen, A.Abbas UW02 P.Yoachim D.Meng, Z.Xu, Z.Liu UW04 B.Choi B.Choi ON-SKY PROG INSTRUMENT START FINISH -------------------------------------------------------------------- AP01 APOLLO 19:24 20:20 NM06 ECHELLE 20:25 22:38 UW02 KOSMOS 22:39 01:05 UW04 ECHELLE 01:06 06:43 PROG SCHEDULED WEATH EQUIP OBS NOT USED I/ROW/DTN START FINISH D B D B D B D B ----------------------------------------------------------------- AP01/R 19:24 20:24 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.0 0 0 NM06/R 20:24 22:45 0 0 0 0 0.1 2.3 0 0 UW02/R 22:45 01:10 0 0 0 0 2.4 0.0 0 0 UW04/R 01:10 06:56 0 0 0 0 5.8 0.0 0 0 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time ------------- ACTIVITY LOG -------------- Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky No problems tonight ------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:29 APOLLO 525( 2297) -63 61 17.0 19.0 18.9 18.3 17.1 -- 1.50 20:29 ecamera 489( 404) -140 58 16.7 17.3 17.7 16.7 16.3 ND1 1.01 22:50 kosmos 450( 1264) 137 75 16.1 15.3 16.2 15.1 15.2 -- 1.16 01:10 ecamera 471( 264) 31 73 15.7 14.9 15.7 14.6 14.9 ND1 0.79 ------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------- Wind Precip.or Time Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction Dust Sky Conditions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:00 67 20 11 263 (W) 412 clear none 17:00 69 20 12 256 (WSW) 264 clear none 18:00 68 20 8 260 (W) 296 clear none 19:00 65 16 8 223 (SW) 386 clear none 20:00 62 13 9 239 (WSW) 394 clear none 21:00 62 12 9 209 (SSW) 557 clear none 22:00 61 12 12 219 (SW) 543 clear none 23:00 62 12 13 209 (SSW) 480 clear none 00:00 61 12 13 216 (SW) 446 clear none 01:00 59 11 9 252 (WSW) 405 clear none 02:00 60 11 8 274 (W) 334 clear none 03:00 61 11 10 279 (W) 359 clear none 04:00 57 8 7 316 (NW) 350 clear none 05:00 59 11 14 1 (N) 337 clear none 06:00 60 10 20 31 (NNE) 340 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: 3.1.8