Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 07:24:49 -0700 (MST)
From: Tia Hoyes
Subject: 3.5m obslog 971027
                        MONDAY   OCTOBER 27, 1997
                         APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                              OBSERVING  LOG
                                    ACTUAL
ASTRONOMER   INSTRUMENT   DATE   START FINISH
Strauss       SPICAM      10/27  18:00 23:50
York          SPICAM      10/27  23:50 06:00
 INST        SCHEDULED      OBS      WEATH     EQUIP   DAY   NOTUSED
I/RS/DN    START FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B   USE   D    B
PU03/R     18:40 23:50   1.8   0   3.4   0    0    0    0    0    0
UC04/R     23:50 04:55   3.9   0    0    0    0   1.2    0    0    0
(note: times listed include instrument change time)
                               ACTIVITY LOG
(* means a trouble report has been issued or appended to)
The telescope was opened at 22:00 due to overcast skies.
Michael Strauss, Xiaohui Fan, Charles Corson and I began the evening using the
pinhole filter in SPICAM to test for scattered light. (changing the baffle and
it's position)  When we finally opened, we used the GUIDER and then Michael
continued with drift scanning.
Connie Rockosi was the observer for UC04. She proceeded to observe with SPICAM.
We seemed to encounter a pointing problem around 3:40.  I tried track/pterr,
but that did not fix it.  I also tried stopping the motors, reinitializing, and
moving the telescope over the magnasensors, but that did not resolve it.
I finally went to another target and found a bright catalog star and centered
on it.  That worked.  Connie mentioned a tracking problem also:/export/images/
cmr27/oct270084.fits, which I think is due to being too close to zenith.
Charles restarted the temperature process, but it has not been updating the
structural temperatures all evening.
                               FOCUS LOG
                            OCTOBER  27, 1997
                Best    Telescope            Wind                 Seeing
Time   Inst     Focus    Az   El   Temp#     Dir  MPH     filter   FWHM "
22:20 SPICAM -150(5967) 93.1 85.0  1.0/3.5  235.1 12.4      r'     1.26
18:30 GUIDER    50000   93.1 85.0  1.0/3.5  231.8 14.0      R
19:00 SPICAM-150(6070)-138.3 50.2  2.0/3.5  271.1 10.4      r'     1.04
21:45 SPICAM -50(6240) 355.7 35.2  1.9/3.5  272.4 12.8      g'     1.52
00:30 SPICAM-100(6017) 242.3 87.8  1.5/3.5  320.8 14.6      r'     1.2
# The first temp is air, the second is truss, both in degrees C.
                                 WEATHER
			    OCTOBER  27,  1997
                                 Wind
    Time   Temp F Dewp.   MPH.    Dir.       DUST     Sky         Precip.
     16:01    39    22     10   272  (W)      420   overcast       none
     17:01    38    24     10   305  (NW)     492   overcast       none
     18:01    37    25     10   302  (WNW)    520   overcast       none
     19:01    37    25     10   269  (W)      559   overcast       none
     20:01    36    23     12   249  (WSW)    633   overcast       none
     21:01    34    20      9   202  (SSW)    920 partly cloudy    none
     22:01    35    18     13   226  (SW)     617 partly cloudy    none
     23:01    35    17     13   221  (SW)     664   clearing       none
     00:01    35    16     11   269  (W)      749 mostly clear     none
     01:01    35    22     13   268  (W)      772 mostly clear     none
     02:01    36    20     16   257  (WSW)    710   clear          none
     03:01    36    25     10   275  (W)      752   clear          none
     04:01    35    25     18   267  (W)      797   clear          none
     05:01    35    25     12   307  (NW)     765   clear          none
     06:01    35    24      9   305  (NW)     686   clear          none
     07:01    35    19     16   328  (NNW)    558   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
>1 micron per 0.1 cu. ft.
                             TELESCOPE STATUS
Primary, secondary, and tertiary mirrors in place and collimated.
Primary support system operational.  Mirror ventilation system in place.
Telescope drives operational.  Current Remark version: 2.36
Current guide software version:GIm Ctrlv3.0b11.
-Tia