Subject: 2000/10/16 - 3.5m Night Log 20001016
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 100 08:08:02 -0600 (MDT)
From: bergeron@apo.nmsu.edu (Eddie Bergeron)
                       APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                       3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Monday, October 16th, 2000
                                                          ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)        INSTRUMENT   DATE   START  FINISH
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 E.Turner        E.Bergeron          SPIcam     10/16  18:50  20:07
 K.Krisciunas   K.Krisciunas      SPIcam/GrIm 10/16-17 20:17  00:57
 P.Hodge          D.Zucker           SPIcam     10/17  01:08  07:10
  INST        SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS    DAY   NOTUSED
 I/RO/DN    START FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B   USE   D    B
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 PU04/S     19:22  19:55   0    -   0.0   -   0.6   -   0.0  0.0   -
 UW07/R     20:20  00:58   0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.9  3.8  0.0  0.0  0.0
 UW06/R     01:23  06:16   -    0    -   0.0   -   4.9  0.0   -   0.0
 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist, 1st & 2nd shift: Eddie Bergeron
 Took g' and r' dome and sky flats before starting the Lens monitor
 program. Ran the CamLens script, getting 14 images at 1" seeing. Sky
 was clear all night and the seeing remained just below 1" until an
 early morning wind shift to the east. No problems. Scattered moonlight
 will make D.Zucker's reductions a little tricky. I tried to use Alan
 Watson's "fexp" focus script in the mc.tcl script described in the
 GRIM manual, but it crashed with what looks like a syntax error.
 Maybe I was doing something wrong, but I'll look into it tomorrow.
        --------------- INSTRUMENT FOCUS LOG ----------------
                                      Air/Truss   Wind
 Time  Instrument   Focus     Az  El   #Temp-C   Dir MPH  filt   FWHM
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 19:25 SPIcam    -210(694)   120  43  7.9/10.5   264  10    g'    1.0"
 20:30 SPIcam    -150(673)   152  54  8.2/9.1    263   8  MSSSO-V 0.9"
 21:30 GrIm f/5  -025(928)   167  58  8.1/8.4    271   9    H    0.76"
 01:20 SPIcam    -050(672)    45  52  6.9/7.1    221   1   6563   0.9"
             ------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS ------------
                               Wind                          Precip.or
      Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
     ------------------------------------------------------------------
     17:01    55    30      3   226  (SW)     173  mostly clear  none
     18:01    51    30      6   264  (W)      257  mostly clear  none
     19:01    48    30      8   268  (W)      302  mostly clear  none
     20:01    47    30      7   261  (W)      320    clear       none
     21:01    47    28      6   266  (W)      315    clear       none
     22:01    46    27      5   272  (W)      334    clear       none
     23:01    44    27      7   216  (SW)     340    clear       none
     00:01    45    28      4   213  (SSW)    406    clear       none
     01:01    46    28      2   254  (WSW)    398    clear       none
     02:01    46    29      1   225  (SW)     472    clear       none
     03:01    46    28      1   262  (W)      404    clear       none
     04:01    45    27      0   195  (SSW)    416    clear       none
     05:01    43    28      0   202  (SSW)    419    clear       none
     06:01    43    27      5   182  (S)      380    clear       none
     07:01    44    27      5   179  (S)      382    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: 2.62.
Current guide software version: GIm Ctrlv3.0b27. Current TCC version
is 2.4.0 Current MC version: v1_7_3.
- Eddie Bergeron