Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 05:57:19 -0700 (MST)
From: Charles Corson
Subject: 3.5m obslog 980115
                             Monday January 5, 1998
                          APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY 3.5m
                                 OBSERVING LOG
                                       ACTUAL
   ASTRONOMER      INSTRUMENT   DATE   START FINISH
Corson			DIS	1/05   --    --
Hoopes			DIS	1/05   --    --
Holden			Spi	1/05   1:10  3:45
Stubbs			DIS	1/05   04:20 05:20
    INST        SCHEDULED      OBS      WEATH     EQUIP   DAY   NOTUSED
   I/RS/DN    START FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B   USE   D    B
PU01 O	      18:39 19:01    0    0    0    0.4  0    0    0    0    0
NM03 R        19:01 00:07    0    0    0    5.1  0    0    0    0    0
UC08 R        00:07 04:06    1.4  0    1.7  0.9  0    0    0    0    0
UW05 R        04:06 05;39    1.0  0    0.3  0    0    0    0    0    0
                             ACTIVITY/FAILURE   LOG
Both the Lens Monitoring time and the NMSU time was lost due to high
humidity and mostly cloudy skies.
Brad Holden was able to obtain some imaging data, but only a few images
as the dome was closed several times due to the humidity.
Chris Stubbs observed for D. Reiss with good conditions.  A good data set
was obtained for the SN target.
The network connection was rather slow for both Holden and Stubbs, the
ftp process was very slow, for Chris it was about 24Kbytes/sec and
is usually three times as fast.  Though this has not stopped observing
in the past, the slow ftp transfers is becoming a frequent nuisance.
The guider mac continues to hang with no apparent cause.  I could not
access the mac as it hung in a screen saver mode.  No errors were seen
at the TCC.
USER COMMENTS:
Holden
The ftp process sped-up as the night progressed.  No problems with the
telescope or insturment.  The pointing from night to night is pretty
consistent based on my standard fields.
Stubbs
Despite losing a little time to humidity closure, our run was very
succesful.  We are grateful for the assistance Charles gave us, and
are happy telescope users.
The net bandwidth was erratic, with frequent delays nearly 10sec in the
Remark interface.  I sent some traceroute data that might be useful.
(that data has been forwarded to Craig Loomis)
				 FOCUS LOG
			      January 5, 1998
Time	Inst	Focus		Az  El  Temp	Wind	Filter  FWHM
					deg C   dir mph         arc-sec
1:20    Spi   -300(  )          126 42 -7.0/-4.0 305 21   V     1.8
2:40    Spi   -250(5624)        150 54 -7.0/-6.0 310 17   V     1.3
4:30    DIS   +175(5961)        7   64 -7.0/-6.8 320 13   r     1.1
                                WEATHER  LOG
                              January 5, 1998
    Time    Temp  Dewpt  Windspeed  Dir     Dust    Sky		Precip.
     16:01    26    26     14   258  (WSW)   3693   overcast    none
     17:01    25    25     14   235  (SW)    2435   overcast    none
     18:01    24    24     16   255  (WSW)    212   overcast    none
     19:01    24    23     11   261  (W)      190   overcast    none
     20:01    23    21     16   270  (W)      214   overcast    none
     21:01    22    21     15   270  (W)      187   clear       none
     22:01    21    20     13   268  (W)      191   mstly cldy  none
     23:01    21    19     11   281  (W)      171   mstly cldy  none
     00:01    20    18     14   293  (WNW)    189   mstly cldy  none
     01:01    20    15     19   305  (NW)     174   clear       none
     02:01    19    15     17   309  (NW)     157   clear       none
     03:01    19    16      9   294  (WNW)    203   clear       none
     04:01    19    15     16   313  (NW)     210   clear       none
     05:01    18    14     15   316  (NW)     208   clear       none
                              TELESCOPE STATUS
   Operational:  Configured for normal left Nasmyth operation.
   Current Software:  GRIM ICC: grimII.coma(2.5),  Remark: 2.36, TCC: 2.36
   Guider:  GIm Ctrlv3.0b11
Charles