From: "Noel Camron Hastings"
Subject: 3.5-m Night Log 04.04.2000
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 06:07:25 -0700
                         Tuesday, April 04, 2000
                        APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                             Observing Log
                                                          ACTUAL
ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)   INSTRUMENT   DATE        START FINISH
--------------------------------------------------------------------
J.Dalcanton	    J.Dalcanton	SPIcam	 4/03-04     19:30  06:05
                & V.Desai
 INST        SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS    DAY   NOTUSED
I/RS/DN    START FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B   USE   D    B
--------------------------------------------------------------------
UW05/R     20:20  05:51   0    -   1.6   -   7.9   -    0    0    -
(note: times listed include instrument change time)
                      -------- ACTIVITY LOG --------
First-Half Observing Specialist: Deglman
The inner PMSS canister was pink during the afternoon checkout.  Opened
Dome at 18:55.  Twilight flats were obtained for UW05 with SPIcam after
some SPIcam troubles.*  Started out with seeing of around 0.8
arcseconds.
SPIcam got 0.56 arcsec in the I filter.  The DIMM had been left running
last night in an attempt to start it from the control room.  No success
with SMALLSEARCH.  The IRSC kept stalling.*  Guider problems starting at
22:25.*  No stars were seen at a multitude of rotation angles.  Tried
reinitializing.  Totally reset the NA2 guider (hardware and software).
Went to an SAO star, then offset to guider.  Weird vignetting with
possible out of focus star.  Removed SPIcam and examined guider.  Filter
wheel was misaligned.  Set to no filter and restarted guider.
Vignetting
gone, but stars badly out of focus.  Tried extreme pistoning and "gmech
init".  No change.  REMAPped guider, then re"set inst=spicam".
Apparently
worked fine after remap.  Some calibration images were done on standards
during the troubleshooting time, which took about 2 hours total.
Second-Half Observing Specialist: Camron Hastings
Not much happened after we got the guider running. Smooth night, clear
skies. UW reported that some astigmatism was seen in SPIcam images. It
cleared up a bit when we refocused.
                            OBSERVER COMMENTS
                                FOCUS LOG
                              April 04 2000
                                                  Wind
Time   Inst        Focus     Az  El   #Temp    Dir  MPH  filt  FWHM "
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
20:15  SPIcam    -75(+0602) 214  52  7.5/9.4   335    8    I   0.87"
20:20  Guider   1919                                      red  0.84"
23:55  SPIcam     25(-1300) 189  45  7.2/7.9   176    7    I   0.66"
00:50  Guider   2000                                     none  0.92"
04:10  SPIcam    -25(?????) 196  44  7.6/7.5   198   12    I   0.78"
#First temp is air, second temp is telescope.
                                 WEATHER
                              April 04 2000
                           Wind  Wind
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH   Direction    Dust      Sky      Precip.
     -------------------------------------------------------------------
     17:01    54    11      1   332  (NNW)    336   photometric   none
     18:01    57    16      8   261  (W)      546   photometric   none
     19:01    50    15      1   246  (WSW)    586   photometric   none
     20:01    48    12      2   321  (NW)     604   photometric   none
     21:01    48    14      2   332  (NNW)    581   photometric   none
     22:01    48    16      1   273  (W)      673   photometric   none
     23:01    47    17      1   216  (SW)     744   photometric   none
     00:01    45    13      6   149  (SSE)    529   photometric   none
     01:01    48     3      9   193  (SSW)    331   photometric   none
     02:01    47     3     12   196  (SSW)    459   photometric   none
     03:01    46    11     15   204  (SSW)    694   photometric   none
     04:01    45    14      9   188  (S)      771   photometric   none
     05:01    45    14     14   206  (SSW)    726   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
     ----------------------------------------------------------------
     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