Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 06:55:52 -0600 (MDT)
From: Karen Gloria
Subject: 3.5-m obslog 970525
                           SUNDAY MAY 25, 1997
                         APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                              OBSERVING  LOG
                                    ACTUAL
ASTRONOMER   INSTRUMENT   DATE   START FINISH
Turner          DIS       5/25   21:40 22:20
Friedman        DIS     5/25-26  22:20 01:00
Harper         GRIM2      5/26   01:00 04:20
 INST        SCHEDULED      OBS      WEATH     EQUIP   DAY   NOTUSED
I/RS/DN    START FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B   USE   D    B
PU01/R     21:40 22:20   0.7   -    0    -    0    -    0    0    -
JH04/R     22:20 01:00   0.9  1.8   0    0    0    0    0    0    0
UC03/R     01:00 04:20    -   3.3   -    0    -    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 20:35 MDT.  Opening was delayed by high
winds.
*The wind was pulling off a loose part of the primary mirror edge
mask, so after consulting with Mark K. I fastened down the loose ends.
This task was complete before the end of twilight, but it did impact
the first observer who had planned to observe a standard star during
twilight.
*The telescope azimuth axis failed to stop at the end four slews.
Each time I had to intervene to stop the telescope and prevent it from
hitting the hard limits.
The observers were Xiaohui Fan for PU01, Bill Oegerle for JH04, and
Rhodri Evans for UC03.
Xioahui used the PU01 time for spectroscopy of a lens candidate.
Bill obtained spectra of seven of his targets.
Rhodri took a long series of IR images of his target in Cepheus.
                                FOCUS LOG
                               MAY 25 1997
                  Best   Telescope           Wind             Seeing
Time   Inst      Focus    Az  El    #Temp   Dir MPH  filter   FWHM "
21:30  DIS      0(6437)  144  59  10.8/11.4 260 20     r       1.2
01:25  GRIM2 -150(6334)  151  53   9.2/ 9.6 265 22     K'      1.0
#The first temp is air, the second is truss, both in degrees Celsius
                                 WEATHER
                               MAY 25 1997
                                   Wind
    Time  Temp F  Dewp. F	MPH.	Dir.	     Sky          Precip.
    16:01    55      28         29   250  (WSW)     cirrus         none
    17:01    57      30         28   245  (WSW)     cirrus         none
    18:01    57      28         29   247  (WSW)     cirrus         none
    19:01    55      28         31   251  (WSW)     clear          none
    20:01    52      30         27   236  (SW)     ptly cldy       none
    21:01    52      28         22   256  (WSW)     clear          none
    22:01    52      28         15   260  (W)       clear          none
    23:01    51      27         28   260  (W)       clear          none
    00:01    50      25         18   258  (WSW)     clear          none
    01:01    49      24         21   261  (W)       clear          none
    02:01    49      26         23   270  (W)       clear          none
    03:01    48      28         24   275  (W)       clear          none
    04:01    47      27         21   278  (W)       clear          none
    05:01    46      28         20   281  (W)       cirrus         none
    06:01    44      30         15   277  (W)       cirrus         none
note: the wind was coming from the azimuth listed.  The convention
used is north=0 degrees, east=90 degrees.
                             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 Ctrl SI502 6.3.96.
-Karen