From: "Camron Hastings"
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20000911
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 06:09:20 -0600
                       APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                       3.5m Telescope Night Log
                     Monday, September 11th, 2000
                                                          ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)        INSTRUMENT   DATE   START  FINISH
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 S.Trammell     S.Trammell,        GRIM(f/10)   9/11   20:00  01:00
                Q.Sykes
 L.Hobbs        L.Hobbs            Echelle      9/12   01:20  06:22
  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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 UC05/O     20:08  01:10   -    0    -    0    -   5.0   0    0    0
 UC06/R     01:10  05:51   0    0    0    0   0.3  4.4   0    0    0
 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist, 1st shift: Russet McMillan
 Several hours of photometric conditions and good seeing -- in fact, I
 believe the focus measurement of 0.47 arcseconds was the best ever
 obtained with this telescope.  The only difficulty was tracking the
 rapid changes focus with GRIM at f/10, which may have been a
 consequence of opening rather late for cooling (due to calibrations),
 along with the good seeing making any changes in focus more obvious.
 Since the seeing was so nice, I used the instrument change time to
 grab some quick Shack-Hartmann data, with no impact on the scheduled
 times.
 Observing Specialist, 2nd shift: Noel Camron Hastings
 The seeing seemed to deteriorate somewhat when the S-H data was
acquired,
 but not horribly. Other than that we had good skies. Smooth sailing.
GRIM
 was left on the telescope so that the observer could do some dome flats
 in the afternoon. The eyelid was left open for cooling.
        --------------- INSTRUMENT FOCUS LOG ----------------
                                     Air/Truss   Wind
 Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El   #Temp-C    Dir MPH  filt   FWHM
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 20:20 GRIM(f/10) -100(1320) 189 61  16.5/18.8   315   4    K    0.58
 20:25 NA2gdr     -700(1320) 189 61  16.5/18.8   315   4   --    0.93
 20:35 GRIM(f/10) -130(1286) 197 60  16.0/18.4   300   5    J    0.71
 22:10 GRIM(f/10) -050(1269) 260 77  16.6/17.0   314   6    K    0.78
 22:50 GRIM(f/10)  100(1415) 268 69  16.6/16.8   285   6    K    0.47
 01:30 Echelle     081(0380) 332 63  16.2/16.0   215   7  clear  0.95
              ------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS ------------
                               Wind                          Precip.or
      Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
     ------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:01    68    33     16   312  (NW)     743   mstly clr   none
     17:01    66    31      2   330  (NNW)    623     clear     none
     18:01    66    29      7   332  (NNW)    576     clear     none
     19:01    63    30      1   275  (W)      565     clear     none
     20:01    62    31      2   293  (WNW)    671     clear     none
     21:01    61    32      1   339  (NNW)    733     clear     none
     22:01    60    32      4   318  (NW)     701     clear     none
     23:01    62    32      3   258  (WSW)    750   mstly clr   none
     00:01    62    32      2   263  (W)      695     clear     none
     01:01    61    31      6   267  (W)      725     clear     none
     02:01    61    33      3   264  (W)      757     clear     none
     03:01    60    33      2   351  (N)      737     clear     none
     04:01    60    29     10    11  (N)      757     clear     none
     05:01    60    24     14    40  (NE)     726     clear     none
     06:01    60    28      8    38  (NE)     732     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: 2.62.
Current guide software version: GIm Ctrlv3.0b27. Current TCC version
is 2.4.0b1 Current MC version: v1_7_3.
-- Russet McMillan, Camron Hastings