Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 08:46:57 -0600 (MDT)
From: Karen Gloria
Subject: 3.5-m obslog 981005
                          MONDAY OCTOBER 5, 1998
                         APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                              OBSERVING  LOG
                                                          ACTUAL
ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)        INSTRUMENT   DATE   START FINISH
Turner           Hastings            SPIcam    10/5    20:04 20:54
Dalcanton        Dalcanton           GRIM2    10/5-6   20:54 01:10
Szkody           Szkody               DIS      10/6    01:10 05:39
 INST        SCHEDULED      OBS      WEATH     EQUIP   DAY   NOTUSED
I/RS/DN    START FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B   USE   D    B
PU01/S     20:04 20:54    -   0.8   -    0    -    0    0    -    0
UW03/R     20:54 01:10    -   4.3   -    0    -    0    0    -    0
UW01/R     01:10 05:39    -   3.1   -    0    -   1.4   0    -    0
(note: times listed include instrument change time)
                               ACTIVITY LOG
(* means a trouble report has been issued or appended to)
1st half observing specialist: Camron Hastings
2nd half observing specialist: Karen Gloria
Tonight, the sky was clear but the seeing was not very good.  There
was a pretty brisk NNE wind most of the night.  Camron didn't have any
problems to report, other than the poor seeing and having to move the
scaffolding left in front of the telescope by the cleaning crew..
Julianne Dalcanton was in the unfortunate position of being on in the
middle time slot with different instruments on either side.
We had some problems with the drives during Paula Szkody's run.
Altitude and azimuth were jerking intermittently, sometimes
individually, sometimes together.  I estimate Paula lost about 30% of
her photons due to this.
- Karen
			     OBSERVER COMMENTS
UW03: I forgot to ask for comments.
UW01 (Szkody): Despite some bad seeing and intermittent drive
oscillations, we were able to get 30 useful spectra covering almost
the whole orbit of an intermediate polar contemporaneous with our EUVE
satellite observations.
                                 FOCUS LOG
                              OCTOBER 5 1998
                  Best   Telescope           Wind            Seeing
Time   Inst      Focus    Az  El   #Temp    Dir MPH  filter  FWHM "
01:30  DIS   - 50(6526)  275  51  4.2/3.8    20  25    r      2.1
#The first temp is air, the second is truss, both in degrees Celsius
                                  WEATHER
                              OCTOBER 5 1998
                               Wind
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust      Sky      Precip.
     16:01    40     9     13   301  (WNW)     -       clear      none
     17:01    39     1     11   346  (NNW)     -       clear      none
     18:01    39     5     15   347  (NNW)     -       clear      none
     19:01    38     2     14     4  (N)       -       clear      none
     20:01    37     6     14    45  (NE)      -       clear      none
     21:01    39     6     12    20  (NNE)     -       clear      none
     22:01    39     9     22    16  (NNE)     -       clear      none
     23:01    40     6     25    18  (NNE)     -       clear      none
     00:01    40     6     19    11  (N)       -       clear      none
     01:01    40     4     21    15  (NNE)     -       clear      none
     02:01    39     0     13    34  (NE)      -       clear      none
     03:01    38     5     22    19  (NNE)     -       clear      none
     04:01    38     6     17    29  (NNE)     -       clear      none
     05:01    35     7      5    79  (ENE)     -       clear      none
     06:01    36     6      7    90  (E)       -       clear      none
     07:01    35    11      9    85  (E)       -       clear      none
     08:01    37    10      9   121  (ESE)     -       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: 2.42a.
Current guide software version: GIm Ctrlv3.0b15.
-Camron Hastings, Karen Gloria