From: "Camron Hastings"
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 990108
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 06:19:50 -0700
		     Apache Point Observatory, Sunspot, NM
		           Friday, January 8th, 1999
                     3.5-meter Night Observing Log
					  Actual
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ASTRONOMER       OBSERVER(S)     INSTRUMENT      DATE     START  FINISH
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G.Richards       G.Richards      DIS             1/8      20:45  22:30
D.York           C.Mallouris     Echelle         1/8-9    22:30  05:39
                 S.Wang
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 INST       SCHEDULED      WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     DAY    NOTUSED
I/RS/DN   START  FINISH    D    B    D    B    D    B   USE    D    B
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UC01/R    18:41  22:30    2.1   -    0    -   1.8   -    0     0    -
EN03/S    22:30  05:39     0    0    0    0   1.5  5.7   0     0    0
               -------------- Activity Log --------------
1st Half Observing Specialist: Karen Gloria
	The telescope was opened at 20:45 MST.  Opening was delayed by
clouds.  Gordon Richards observed (from the AAS meeting) for UC01, which was
a time swap from February to obtain some setting objects.
	After UC01, we switched over to the Echelle, and Shu-i Wang and Chris
Mallouris continued Echelle tests from onsite.  No problems to report from
the instruments or the telescope.
2nd Half Observing Specialist: Camron Hastings
	Nothing to report. All was smooth. Photometric during second half. Focus
tests and long throughput test exposures. All worked well.
                  ------- Observer Comments -------
Shu-I Wang: Engineering measurements of the Echelle focus tests confirmed
that the telescope-spectrograph focus is confocal with the calibration
system-spectrograph focus.  All is well.  We thank Ed Turner for giving us
EN03 time to check this.
                               FOCUS LOG
                           January 8th 1999
                   Best    Telescope    Temp      Wind          Seeing
 Time  Instrmnt    Focus     Az   El   Air/Truss  Dir MPH  filter FWHM"
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20:50  slitcam   -250(5806)  153  66  -4.3/-0.4   74  14   none   2.5"
20:55  guider   54351(5799)  158  67  -4.3/-0.6   72  13   none   2.6"
22:55  echelle   -689(    )  211  35  -2.3/-2.5   13   5   ND 1   1.7"
03:30  echelle   -689(5209) -102  54  -2.4/-3.4  252   1   none   1.1"
                              WEATHER LOG
                           January 8th 1999
                                  Wind
     Time   Temp-F Dewp-F MPH   Direction    Dust      Sky      Precip
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     16:01    37     7     13   254  (WSW)           overcast    none
     17:01    35     5      5   292  (WNW)           overcast    none
     18:01    29    10     14    76  (ENE)           overcast    none
     19:01    27    15     21    59  (ENE)           overcast    none
     20:01    27    16     14    78  (ENE)           mstly cldy  none
     21:01    24    17     12    72  (ENE)             clear     none
     22:01    25    12      6    30  (NNE)             clear     none
     23:01    28     8      5    11  (N)               clear     none
     00:01    30     5      1   261  (W)               clear     none
     01:01    28    10      5   289  (WNW)             clear     none
     02:01    28    11      0   290  (WNW)             clear     none
     03:01    28    11      3   313  (NW)              clear     none
     04:01    28    12      0   220  (SW)              clear     none
     05:01    27     9      4    10  (N)               clear     none
     06:01    27    11      7   299  (WNW)             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 for the
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
- KAG, NCH