From: "Camron Hastings"
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20000825
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 05:26:36 -0600
                       APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                       3.5m Telescope Night Log
                        Friday, Aug 25th, 2000
                                                          ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)        INSTRUMENT   DATE   START  FINISH
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 E.Turner       E.Turner,B.Pindor  DIS-Low      8/25   --:--  --:--
 W.Zheng        W.Zheng,           DIS-Low      8/26   22:46  05:39
                V.Mikles,
                J.Wang
  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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 PU05/R     20:32  21:12  0.7   -    0    -    0    -    0    0    -
 JH04/O     21:13  05:39  1.5   0   1.0   0   3.6  2.4   0    0    0
 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist, 1st & 2nd shift: Camron Hastings
    Opening was again delayed by clouds. The first program never got off
the ground. Wei Zheng was onsite with students for his program. We
opened at 22:43 MDT under partly cloudy skies and good seeing again. The
internet was going down regularly. Craig looked into it, it was a
problem somewhere else in the world, not here.
    We lost an hour of exposure time when it was discovered that DIS had
started to warm. The lN2 cable was not properly seated, probably because
I did not seat it properly when mounting it. It may have been that I
just did not push hard enough when inserting it. I fixed the cable and
DIS cooled off right away and we continued to image successfully until
clouds started crowding us out again around 04:50 MDT. We did get some
successful images tonight of very dim objects.
          --------------- Observer Comments ----------------
        --------------- INSTRUMENT FOCUS LOG ----------------
                                     Air/Truss   Wind
Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El   #Temp-C    Dir MPH  filt   FWHM
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22:51 DIS Slit  100(1355)  094  69  16.3/17.6   174  08  none   0.82"
22:59 NA2 Gdr  1727(1355)  095  69  16.3/17.6   174  08  none   1.08"
00:35 DIS Slit  020(1251)  208  54  15.4/16.1   141  15  none   0.83"
00:37 NA2 Gdr  -499(1251)  210  54  15.4/16.0   142  15  none   0.80"
              ------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS ------------
                               Wind                          Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust      Sky  Conditions
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:01    69    45      8   193  (SSW)    697    cloudy     none
     17:01    63    46      8    43  (NE)     707    cloudy     rain
     18:01    63    46      2   314  (NW)     608    cloudy     none
     19:01    63    44      3   138  (SE)     764    cloudy     none
     20:01    63    43      4   154  (SSE)    772    cloudy     none
     21:01    62    44      5   208  (SSW)    802    cloudy     none
     22:01    62    43      9   141  (SE)     790    cloudy     none
     23:01    61    43      8   177  (S)      752  ptly cldy    none
     00:01    60    42     14   152  (SSE)    748  ptly cldy    none
     01:01    59    41     13   133  (SE)     572  ptly cldy    none
     02:01    59    41      9   166  (SSE)    552    clear      none
     03:01    57    43     13   139  (SE)     698    clear      none
     04:01    57    43      3   112  (ESE)    694    clear      none
     05:01    57    42      6   181  (S)      649  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 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 2.4.0b1 Current MC version: v1_7_3.
-- Camron Hastings