Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 15:24:48 -0600
From: Dan Long
Subject: Re: [sdss3-25mlog 290] 2.5m obslog 20111007 (MJD 55842)
>                        APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M
>
>                                  OBSERVING LOG
>                           Friday October 07, 2011
>
>                                   (MJD 55842)
>
>----  Observing Team ----
>
>Dan Oravetz
>Elena Malanushenko
>
>---- Observing Plan ----
>
>7 Oct 2011  55842.0  0.77  02:02 11:40  20:04 05:44  MARVELS/APOGEE
>until 10:01
>(8.5 h), then BOSS (1.6 h)
>
>---- Observing Summary ----
>
>The night was almost lost because of clouds, nearby storm,
>high humidity, and strong wind.
>
>We observed one apogee plate one AB seq
>  ct=9, pl=5540,  sd=A;
>
>We observed one Boss plate
>ct=14, pl=5159,
>but declared it as bad because of weather.
>
>We had several rotator brakes during our night, mostly
>around rot=249. Example of fiducials reading is
>in problem section.
>
Rotator fiducials were cleaned today (thanks Bob).  This got things
slewing smoothly with no misidentified fiducials, and only missing
the two usual fiducials (the ones near the join in the tape).
				Cheers,
				  Dan