Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 06:28:40 -0600
From: tia@tycho.apo.nmsu.edu (Tia Hoyes)
Subject: 3.5m obslog 980926
                       SATURDAY  SEPTEMBER 26, 1998
                         APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                              OBSERVING  LOG
                                    ACTUAL
ASTRONOMER       OBSERVER          INSTRUMENT   DATE   START FINISH
Deutsch           Anderson           GRIM2      09/26  19:25 22:05
Miller            Miller              DIS       09/26  22:20 00:55
Holtzman          Holtzman           SPICAM     09/26  01:10 06:15
 INST        SCHEDULED      OBS      WEATH     EQUIP   DAY   NOTUSED
I/RS/DN    START FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B   USE   D    B
UW10/R     20:17 22:17    0   2.0   0    0    0    0    0    0    0
NM09/S     22:17 01:10   2.4  0.5   0    0    0    0    0    0    0
NM02/S     01:10 05:33   4.4   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0
(note: times listed include instrument change time)
                               ACTIVITY LOG
The telescope was opened at 18:40.
Scott Anderson was observing for Eric Deutsch.
COMMENTS:We were open throughout our time slot, with another night of
sometimes excellent 0.6-0.7 arcsec seeing in the IR, fine
transparency, etc. GRIM performed well, but with occasional brief hangs
for "no flush, check electronics" error messages. We lost the net connection
once briefly early on. Tia thoughtfully took some darks for us before we
logged on (Thanks!). Another good night.
Neil Miller and Kurt Anderson were on sight to observe for the NM09 program.
COMMENTS:Though short, the run went quite smoothly. I took 15-minute
long spectra of 5 target galaxies, plus a standard star and
two sets of arc lamp spectra. The telescope pointing was
within 10", and the tracking was fine over the duration of
the exposures. I'd like to thank Tia for her part in making
this a successful first run on the instrument.
Neal
Jon  Holtzman was on sight for the NM02 run.
COMMENTS:
At the beginning of the night, Spicam driftscanning revealed that maybe the
pointing and/or tracking was off. Stare mode observations confirmed bad
centering of objects. After running the coordinate error program things
seemed only partially corrected. So we centered object and reset coordinates
manually. Problem seemed corrected afterwards. However, focus kept giving
around 0.9 arcsec seeing and observations showed ~1.1 - 1.3 ... maybe due to
still uncorrected tracking problems?
Spicam was again behaving sporadically...at times not reading the full number
of pixels requested by our script. No pattern in the problem was evident.
A.Folcik
Forecast:(4:30am).
.TODAY...CLEAR THIS MORNING BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY THIS AFTERNOON.
SOUTHEAST WINDS 10-15 MPH.
.TONIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF EVENING SHOWERS OR
THUNDERSTORMS. SOUTHEAST WINDS 10-15 MPH.
.MONDAY...VARIABLE CLOUDINESS WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR
THUNDERSTORMS...MORE NUMEROUS IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. SOUTHEAST
WINDS 10-15 MPH.
(* means a trouble report has been issued or appended to)
                               FOCUS LOG
                            SEPTEMBER 26, 1998
                Best     Telescope               Wind                 Seeing
Time   Inst     Focus     Az    El   Temp#      Dir  MPH     filter   FWHM "
19:40 GRIM2  +50(6997)  212.2  52.2 15.3/16.77 269.1 7.6       K      0.64
22:30  DIS   -50(6638)  184.4  86.1 14.7/15.02 257.5 7.4      IN      1.10
01:15 SPICAM -60(6577)  143.0  58.2 13.8/14.27 279.1 7.0       V      0.95
# The first temp is air, the second is truss, both in degrees C.
                                 WEATHER
                           SEPTEMBER  26,  1998
                                 Wind
    Time   Temp F Dewp.   MPH.    Dir.       DUST     Sky         Precip.
     16:01    66    30      4   262  (W)      252    clear         none
     17:01    64    30     11   262  (W)      241    clear         none
     18:01    64    31      9   273  (W)      262    clear         none
     19:01    59    30      8   268  (W)      218    clear         none
     20:01    60    29      5   270  (W)      354    clear         none
     21:01    59    30      6   266  (W)      458    clear         none
     22:01    59    31      6   265  (W)      507    clear         none
     23:01    59    31      6   267  (W)      523    clear         none
     00:01    56    32      6   269  (W)      506    clear         none
     01:01    58    32      6   275  (W)      520    clear         none
     02:01    57    32      5   278  (W)      452    clear         none
     03:01    57    32      6   284  (WNW)    486    clear         none
     04:01    57    32      8   305  (NW)     471    clear         none
     05:01    57    31      6   332  (NNW)    483    clear         none
     06:01    58    32      5   299  (WNW)    501    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 Ctrl v3.0b 15.out
-Tia