From: Russet McMillan
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20001114
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 06:38:05 -0700 (MST)
                        APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Tuesday, November 14th, 2000
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER    OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT       START  FINISH
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 L. Hobbs      C. Mallouris            Echelle         --:--  --:--
 N. Chanover   N. Chanover, J. Hillman AIMS            05:40  06:15
               A. Simon-Miller,D.Kuehn
  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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 UC04/R     17:58 00:10   1.9  4.3  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0   0.0  0.0
 NM01/O     00:10 05:37   0.0  5.5  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0   0.0  0.0
 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist, 1st Shift: Jack Dembicky
 Overcast skies prevented observations for the first half of the evening.
 Observing Specialist, 2nd Shift: Russet McMillan
 Second half started out quite cloudy.  Some attempts to get cloud
 flats near the moon were unsuccessful.  The precipitation sensor
 triggered several times, but it was apparently reacting either to
 humidity or blowing snow, because there was no human-detected
 precipitation.  When the clouds thinned out, first high humidity and
 later high winds kept us closed.  We did manage to open during
 morning twilight and get some flats in borderline humidity
 conditions.
        ---------------- OBSERVER COMMENTS ------------------
 N. Chanover (NM01):
 The first two clear nights with AImS were very good.  The data was of
 high quality and we reached our scientific objectives.
        --------------- INSTRUMENT FOCUS LOG ----------------
                                       Air/Truss   Wind
 Time  Instrument   Focus     Az  El   #Temp-C   Dir MPH  filt   FWHM
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             ------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS ------------
                               Wind                          Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:01    37    27     13   201  (SSW)    309   Cloudy    none
     17:01    34    27     14   215  (SW)     396   Cloudy    none
     18:01    36    14     10   213  (SSW)    135   Cloudy    none
     19:01    36     1     17   237  (WSW)    397   Cloudy    none
     20:01    35    13     11   229  (SW)     345   Cloudy    none
     21:01    34    23     18   199  (SSW)    244   Cloudy    none
     22:01    35    25     24   201  (SSW)    248   Cloudy    none
     23:01    35    25     21   211  (SSW)    194   Cloudy    none
     00:01    35    25     17   203  (SSW)    252   cloudy    none?
     01:01    35    30     24   196  (SSW)    473   cloudy    none
     02:01    35    32     26   199  (SSW)    773  mstly cldy none
     03:01    34    28     29   220  (SW)     774  ptly cldy  none
     04:01    34    27     26   232  (SW)     477  ptly cldy  none
     05:01    33    25     19   247  (WSW)    313  ptly cldy  none
     06:01    31    28     20   228  (SW)     595  ptly cldy  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
                             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 2.4.1
 Current MC version: v1_7_3.
 - Jack Dembicky, Russet McMillan