Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 06:23:38 -0700 (MST)
From: Jack Dembicky
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20011101
                         APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                         3.5m Telescope Night Log
                       Thursday, November 1st, 2001
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER    OBSERVER(S)             INSTRUMENT      START  FINISH
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 D.York        B.McCall                Echelle         17:45  23:56
 N.Chanover    N.Chanover,C.Anderson,  GRIM            23:56  06:05
               T.Temma
   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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 UC06/R      18:07  00:00   0    0    0   0.1   0   5.8   0    0    0
 NM01/O      00:00  05:27   0    0    0    0    0   5.4   0    0    0
 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                  ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 1st Half Observing Specialist: Russet McMillan
 Nearby precipitation at sunset kept us closed until it was almost
 dark enough to focus, but the clouds cleared away soon after
 twilight.  Seeing was over 2 arcsec on the first focus and appeared
 to remain poor all evening.
 We had a few mysterious blank spectra that should have been QTH
 flats, but the lamp worked correctly when we tried again later.
 There was also a brief problem with a timeout error on the
 slitviewer, but it didn't take long to fix it.  Otherwise, everything
 worked well, and the echelle autoguider did a good job dealing with
 the jumpy seeing.
 2nd Half Observing Specialist: Jack Dembicky
 Everything rans smoothly tonight and the seeing was excellent with
 measurements at 0.66 arc sec at 2.22 microns!!!  Lots of great images
 taken of Jupiter and Saturn tonight.
               ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
                                        Air/Truss   Wind
 Time   Instrument   Focus     Az  El    Temp-C    Dir MPH  filt   FWHM
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 17:55  Echelle    -65(-127)   96  38  8.0/9.6    267  13   ND3    2.17
 00:37  GrIm-f/10    40(576)  134  69  7.3/6.7    302  11   1.58u  0.83
              --------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                 Wind                        Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:01    50    34      7   265  (W)      311  ptly cldy    none
     17:01    49    34      6   267  (W)      294  ptly cldy    none
     18:01    46    33     10   256  (WSW)    284  mstly clr    none
     19:01    46    33     14   269  (W)      237    clear      none
     20:01    46    33     11   264  (W)      259    clear      none
     21:01    46    33     10   262  (W)      226    clear      none
     22:01    46    33      9   268  (W)      356    clear      none
     23:01    45    33      8   267  (W)      270    clear      none
     00:01    45    33      4   291  (WNW)    200    clear      none
     01:01    45    32      5   341  (NNW)    197    clear      none
     02:01    45    33      5    12  (NNE)    203    clear      none
     03:01    43    32      8   324  (NW)     202    clear      none
     04:01    45    32      6   334  (NNW)    163    clear      none
     05:01    43    31      6   347  (NNW)    296    clear      none
     06:01    45    32      8   317  (NW)     229    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
   > 1u per 0.1 cubic feet.
                               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 Ctrlv4.1b2. Current TCC version: 2.5.5
   Current MC version: v1_7_3.