Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 05:20:07 -0700 (MST)
From: Jack Dembicky
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20011102
                         APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                         3.5m Telescope Night Log
                        Friday, November 2nd, 2001
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER    OBSERVER(S)             INSTRUMENT      START  FINISH
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 D. York       M.Hammergren            SPIcam          --:--  --:--
 C.Stubbs      A.Miceli, R.Covarrubius SPIcam          17:30  23:51
 N.Chanover    N.Chanover,C.Anderson,  GRIM            00:10  04:35
               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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 UC08/R      17:06  18:06   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0
 UW06/R      18:06  00:00   0    0    0    0   0.4  5.5   0    0    0
 NM01/O      00:00  05:28   0   0.9   0   0.4   0   4.2   0    0    0
 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                  ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: Jack Dembicky
The Adler folks had some internet connection problems tonight so they were
not able to use the twilight time allocated to them.  I turned it over to
the UW folks (1st half observers) to get some twilights.
The weather (temperature and dewpoint) readings again got stuck around
18:00.  Craig fixed the problem remotely around 20:20ish so any temps or
conditions before that should be suspect.
We switched over to GRIM at 23:51 and I turned the instrument back over to
the 2nd half observers at 00:10 after showing Nancy's students around the
3.5m enclosure during the instrument swap.
The 2nd half observers noted a strange white bar on the bottom of the LL
quadrant with exposures under 1.2s in duration.  PR was submitted.  When
they slewed to Saturn we discovered that that white bar affected the
image.  Several reboots of GRIM and one of the ICC fixed the problem.
About 25 mins was lost in solving this little problem.
Clouds shut us down early as they started to thicken and no useful
observations could be made after 04:35.
               ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
                                        Air/Truss   Wind
 Time   Instrument   Focus     Az  El    Temp-C    Dir MPH  filt   FWHM
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 18:05  SPIcam      -225(652) 169  75   9.0/12.0   264   2    r'   0.84
 18:15  NA2gdr    1629(62629) 173  76   9.0/12.0   264   2    R    0.78
 19:42  SPIcam     -150(755)  189  62   9.0/12.0   264   2    r'   0.85
 19:51  NA2gdr    1629(62629) 192  62   9.0/12.0   264   2   none  1.56
 21:00  SPIcam       -50(737) 209  55   9.1/8.6    189   6    r'   0.93
 00:20  GrIm-f/10     40(645) 128  67   8.2/8.2    172  12  1.58u  0.67
              --------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                 Wind                        Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:01    54    28      8   253  (WSW)    236    Clear     none
     17:01    50    27      1   277  (W)      207    Clear     none
     18:01    NA    NA     NA    NA   NA       NA    Clear     none
     19:01    NA    NA     NA    NA   NA       NA    Clear     none
     20:01    NA    NA     NA    NA   NA       NA    Clear     none
     21:01    48    23      4   207  (SSW)    142    Clear     none
     22:01    47    25      6   191  (S)      200    Clear     none
     23:01    48    24     10   179  (S)      201    Clear     none
     00:01    47    26      8   179  (S)      231    Clear     none
     01:01    47    27     14   127  (SE)     228    Clear     none
     02:01    46    27     12   111  (ESE)    219  Pt. Cldy    none
     03:01    47    29     14   118  (ESE)    259  Pt. Cldy    none
     04:01    46    31     13   127  (SE)     261  Mst. Cldy    none
     05:01    47    31     11   137  (SE)     268    Cloudy    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.