From: Russet McMillan
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20000828
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 02:17:40 -0600 (MDT)
                       APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                       3.5m Telescope Night Log
                        Monday, Aug 28th, 2000
                                                          ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)        INSTRUMENT   DATE   START  FINISH
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 E.Turner       B.Pindor,          DIS          8/28     --     --
                E.Turner
 D.York         C.Mallouris        Echelle      8/28   22:35  00:35
 ??             ??                 ??           8/29     --     --
  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     20:28  21:08  0.7   -    0    -    0    -    0    0    -
 UC07/R     21:08  01:10  2.0   -    0    -   2.0   -    0    0    -
 UW??/R     01:10  05:41   0    -    0    -    0    -    0   4.5   -
 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: Russet McMillan
The evening started out with a thunderstorm, then we got some clearing
and the telescope was opened at 22:35 to partly cloudy skies and
sub-arcsecond seeing.  There was enough time to obtain a few echelle
spectra.  Another storm threatened after midnight, causing us to close
at 00:35, but the rain didn't arrive.
No-one showed up to observe for UW02, which was listed on the schedule
for second half.  Chris Stubbs managed to reach one of the UW02
observers, who said the time had been given to another program, but
didn't know which.  Don Brownlee, the UW scheduler, could not be
reached.  Given the weather and current manpower, the rest of the
night was called off.
        --------------- INSTRUMENT FOCUS LOG ----------------
                                     Air/Truss   Wind
Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El   #Temp-C    Dir MPH  filt   FWHM
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22:40 Echelle    123(392)  110  62  14.8/15.2   145  17  ND1    0.78
              ------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS ------------
                               Wind                          Precip.or
      Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust      Sky  Conditions
     ------------------------------------------------------------------
     18:01    59    46      8    89  (E)      494     cloudy   rain
     19:01    52    45     18   114  (ESE)    672     cloudy   rain
     20:01    56    44      8   108  (ESE)    469     cloudy   rain
     21:01    57    45     11   107  (ESE)    586     cloudy   none?
     22:01    59    45     15   141  (SE)     609   ptly cldy  none
     23:01    58    45     15   139  (SE)     582   ptly cldy  none
     00:01    59    43     15   146  (SE)     559   ptly cldy  none
     01:01    59    42     14   177  (S)      473   ptly cldy  none
     02:01    56    44      9   175  (S)      526   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.
-- Russet McMillan