From: Russet McMillan
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20000124
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 06:53:00 -0700 (MST)
                         MONDAY JANUARY 24, 2000
                         APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                              OBSERVING  LOG
                                                          ACTUAL
ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)        INSTRUMENT   DATE   START FINISH
Leeber          Leeber		   Grim         1/24   18:24 23:10
Krisciunas      Krisciunas         Grim      1/24-25   23:10 01:08
York            York               Echelle      1/25   01:13 06:06
 INST        SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS    DAY   NOTUSED
I/RS/DN    START FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B   USE   D    B
NM03/R     18:24 23:10    0    0    0    0   3.2  1.6   0    0    0
UW07/R     23:10 01:10    -    0    -    0    -   2.0   0    -    0
UC03/R     01:10 06:06    -    0    -    0    -   4.9   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: Deglman
The telescope was opened at 17:00 under cirrus skies.  NM03 was performed
with Grim.  0.6 arcsec seeing was reported with Grim (f/10).  Dawn Leeber
had problems getting the Remark ftp to connect to her home account.*
2nd half observing specialist: McMillan
Second half had clouds varying from light cirrus to brief period of
heavy cover, with moderate seeing.  Our only focus was performed at
high airmass and is probably an upper limit on the seeing size.
We experienced one MC hangup, once again when an autoexpose sequence
was requested with full frames.  This is *supposed* to work, and I
believe it has worked in the past from other sites.  I could not find
anything else suspicious going on at the time.
We observed image motion of approximately 2 arcsec, with the start
jumping to the right when the telescope was at azimuth 290 (WNW),
elevation 53.  Otherwise, tracking was quite good, with corrections
only required every 3-4 minutes.
                            OBSERVER COMMENTS
D. York (UC03):
The night was good, after early clouds.  Guiding excellent.
                                FOCUS LOG
                             JANUARY 24 2000
                                                 Wind
Time   Inst        Focus     Az  El   #Temp    Dir  MPH  filt  FWHM "
18:15  Grim     -15(972)     82  66  4.8/4.8   273   11   J    0.64
19:10  Grim     -15(919)     85  78  4.0/4.3   259   12   K    0.6
01:10  Echelle   57(172)    224  35  4.9/4.6   320   15  ND2   1.29
#First temp is air, second temp is telescope.
                                 WEATHER
                             JANUARY 24 2000
                               Wind
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust      Sky      Precip.
     16:01    42    16     14   283  (WNW)    246     cirrus     none
     17:01    42    17     14   278  (W)      259     cirrus     none
     18:01    40    17     14   272  (W)      326     cirrus     none
     19:01    40    18     13   254  (WSW)    383    hvy cirrus  none
     20:01    40    18     10   247  (WSW)    476     cirrus     none
     21:01    40    18     11   257  (WSW)    328     cirrus     none
     22:01    41    18     10   266  (W)      327     clear      none
     23:01    40    18      6   285  (WNW)    283     clear      none
     00:01    42    20     15   301  (WNW)    174     clear      none
     01:01    40    20      3   338  (NNW)    218    mstly clr   none
     02:01    41    19     11     6  (N)      267    ptly cldy   none
     03:01    40    22      9    18  (NNE)    289    mstly clr   none
     04:01    40    22     20    22  (NNE)    300     cirrus     none
     05:01    40    24     18    41  (NE)     245     cirrus     none
     06:01    40    25      6     2  (N)      368     cirrus     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: 2.55b5.
Current guide software version: GIm Ctrlv3.0b27.  Current TCC version
is 2.2.2.
- Frank Deglman, Russet McMillan