From: "Noel Camron Hastings"
Subject: 3.5-m Night Log 04.03.2000
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 06:19:27 -0700
                         Monday, April 03, 2000
                        APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                             Observing Log
                                                          ACTUAL
ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)   INSTRUMENT   DATE        START FINISH
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Kron            Kron          SPIcam       4/03-04     19:35  06:40
 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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UC02/S     20:19  05:53   0    -    0    -   9.6   -    0    0    -
(note: times listed include instrument change time)
                      -------- ACTIVITY LOG --------
First-Half Observing Specialist: Deglman
Reset the DIMM's LX200 to "Daylight" time.  The inner PMSS canister
still
shows pink in the window.  Opened Dome at 18:55 (MDT).  Twilight flats
were obtained for UC02 with SPIcam.  Good seeing of around 0.7
arcseconds,
to the point of almost undersampling during SPIcam focus frames.  The
guider was undersampling at as low as 1.5 pixels.  Elongation of stars
were reported in the SPIcam images, even while guider was employed.
Astigmatism?  Seeing remained under 1" sometimes as low as 0.65", until
about 23:30 when it deteriorated to around 1.5".  The IRSC slowly fell
behind as the night progressed.  Later, the NA2 guider seeing was
unreliable as we were guiding on a galaxy.
Second-Half Observing Specialist: Camron Hastings
	Not much of interest second half. Good seeing, clear skies and a
trouble free telescope! Images as good as 0.68"! Good correlation with
DIMM data, although there was an offset at times of up to 0.3" or so,
all trends were matched. SPIcam abruptly kicked the observer off near
the end of the night and bailed out into the  prompt. We simply
restarted SPIcam and all was well.
                            OBSERVER COMMENTS
R.Kron (UC02): Three clusters were observed in i' and z'.
                                FOCUS LOG
                              April 03 2000
                                                  Wind
Time   Inst        Focus     Az  El   #Temp    Dir  MPH  filt  FWHM "
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20:10  SPIcam    -010(345)   60  58  3.2/3.9   326   10    i'  0.70"
20:15  Guider    -194					         none  0.72"
21:20  SPIcam    -025(245)  -16  78  2.7/2.8   324   10    z'  0.73"
02:30  SPIcam    -025(???)  -56  61  3.9/3.6   316   16    i'  0.92"
#First temp is air, second temp is telescope.
                                 WEATHER
                              April 03 2000
                           Wind  Wind
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH   Direction    Dust      Sky      Precip.
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     16:01    43    22      8   262  (W)      675    photometric  none
     17:01    40    21     14   283  (WNW)    586    photometric  none
     18:01    45    23      8   277  (W)      615    photometric  none
     19:01    40    22      2   272  (W)      683    photometric  none
     20:01    37    21      9   320  (NW)     665    photometric  none
     21:01    37    21      9   323  (NW)     664    photometric  none
     22:01    37    21      3   348  (NNW)    894    photometric  none
     23:01    37    21      6   277  (W)      885    photometric  none
     00:01    39    20     10   315  (NW)     762    photometric  none
     01:01    39    20     17   315  (NW)    1068    photometric  none
     02:01    40    21     17   312  (NW)    1072    photometric  none
     03:01    39    20     14   321  (NW)     987    photometric  none
     04:01    39    21      7   352  (N)      982    photometric  none
     05:01    38    21      8   328  (NNW)   1081    photometric  none
     06:01    39    20     18    18  (NNE)   1052    photometric  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
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     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, camron