Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20000310
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 100 07:56:29 -0700 (MST)
From: bergeron@apo.nmsu.edu (Eddie Bergeron)
                          FRIDAY MARCH 10, 2000
                         APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                              OBSERVING  LOG
                                                          ACTUAL
ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)        INSTRUMENT   DATE   START FINISH
York             Adler              SPIcam      3/10   18:20  19:10
Kris             Kris               SPIcam      3/10   19:10  19:52
Bowe             Kim                  DIS      3/10-11 20:14  05:50
 INST        SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS    DAY   NOTUSED
I/RS/DN    START FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B   USE   D    B
UC11/R     18:01  19:01   -   0.0   -   0.0   -   0.0  1.0   -   0.0
UW07/R     19:01  19:49   -   0.0   -   0.0   -   1.0  0.0   -   0.0
PU02/R     20:14  05:25  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  6.5  2.9  0.0  0.0  0.0
(note: times listed include instrument change time)
                              ACTIVITY LOG
Opened the dome under photometric skies and it stayed that way all night.
The seeing, however, was less than optimal, ranging from 1.5-2" for most of
the night, until about 04:30 when it improved to 1.0". The UW porgram started
the evening with their twilight flats and then focused the SPIcam for Adler.
Then Adler took a couple of nice images and then handed it back.  Since UW
was so gracious in helping adler out (and since it was photometric) I let
them run 5 minutes over into the inst change time to snap some quick stds.
The inst change was completed on schedule and the PU crew took over. Many
high and low res DIS spectra of galaxies and quasars were obtained - the
seeing didn't seem to hurt too much. The telescope was pointing and tracking
spectacularly. Sometimes we had to offet to find the target, which had landed
right on the slit. The boresight was also quite accurate for horizon rotation
on a few objects (after a track/pterr). No problems to report.
Observing Specialist: Bergeron
                            OBSERVER COMMENTS
                                FOCUS LOG
                              MARCH 10 2000
                                                  Wind
Time   Inst        Focus     Az  El   #Temp    Dir  MPH  filt  FWHM "
18:50  Spicam    -100(63)   150  68  1.7/2.7    6    14   V    1.8
20:45  DIS-slit    0(263)   130  50  2.0/1.4   346   10  none  1.3
02:20  DIS-slit    0(131)   206  53 -0.8/-1.1   11    9  none   ?
#First temp is air, second temp is telescope.
                                 WEATHER
                              MARCH 10 2000
                               Wind
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH   Direction    Dust      Sky      Precip.
     18:01    36     8      8   343  (NNW)    434      clear      none
     19:01    35     7     14    16  (NNE)    371      clear      none
     20:01    35     6      7    31  (NNE)    462      clear      none
     21:01    35     5     11   345  (NNW)    476      clear      none
     22:01    34     5      6     5  (N)      477      clear      none
     23:01    34     6      6   319  (NW)     576      clear      none
     00:01    34     5      7   358  (N)      619      clear      none
     01:01    33     6      9   341  (NNW)    535      clear      none
     02:01    31     8     11   353  (N)      386      clear      none
     03:01    30     8      4   318  (NW)     376      clear      none
     04:01    28     7      4   345  (NNW)    302      clear      none
     05:01    27     6      3   299  (WNW)    284      clear      none
     06:01    27     7      1   228  (SW)     345      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: 2.55b5.
Current guide software version: GIm Ctrlv3.0b27.  Current TCC version
is 2.2.2.
- Eddie Bergeron