Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 06:44:58 -0700 (MST)
From: Jack Dembicky
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20010204
                        APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                       Sunday, February 4th, 2001
                                                          ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER    OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT       START  FINISH
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 N.Chanover    N.Chanover,D.Huestis   Echelle          17:51  19:51
               P.Cosby
 L.Homer       L.Homer,S.Anderson     SPIcam           19:53  20:51
 G.Wallerstein G.Wallerstein          Echelle          20:53  00:10
               G.Gonzalez
 V. Narayanan  V.Narayanan,X.Fan      GrIm (f/5)       00:15  06:20
               M.Strauss
   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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 NM03/O      17:54 19:52    0    0    0    0   0   1.3  0.7   0    0
 UW05/R      19:52 20:52    0    0    0    0   0   1.0   0    0    0
 UW09/R      20:52 00:10    0    0    0    0   0   3.3   0    0    0
 PU02/R      00:10 06:00    0    0    0    0  1.5  4.4   0    0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                 ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist, 1st Shift: Noel Camron Hastings
    I opened the dome today at 16:10 to begin cooling. All systems tested
normally and things ran smoothly. Seeing was much improved from the last
few days and all program switches were fast and smooth. The last few
nights we seems to be able to switch to and from the Echelle in about 2-3
minutes if all goes well. Pointing corrections were behaving well.
 Observing Specialist, 2nd Shift: Jack Dembicky
 The Echelle was running smoothly when I arrived.  I went up into the
enclosure to do the inst. change over for the 2nd half observers at 00:00
and started focusing the instrument for them at 00:22.  They crashed their
mac shortly after that (not related to my focusing) and were back at
00:40.  I handed the focused instrument over to them at when they came
back online. Sub arc second seeing for the 2nd half with GRIM in J
(despite some cirrus early in the 2nd half of the night).
Everything ran smoothly for the entire night.
         --------------- INSTRUMENT FOCUS LOG ----------------
                                       Air/Truss   Wind
 Time   Instrument   Focus     Az El    Temp-C    Dir MPH  filt  FWHM"
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 17:52  Echelle    -136(276)  193 65  +2.8/+6.0   284   6  ND2   1.21"
 20:01  SPIcam        0(783)  140 61  +2.8/+3.4   346   3   B    0.76"
 20:57  Echelle      50(???)  314 43  +4.4/+3.2     8   3 Clear  0.98"
 00:22  GrIm f/5    -20(725)  176 58  +3.3/+2.9   337   4   J    0.95"
 00:35  NA2gdr    -987(58012) 182 58  +2.4/+2.8   310   7  none
 03:35  GrIm f/5    -70(619)  301 84  +3.1/+2.5   310  12   J    0.57"
              ------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS ------------
                                 Wind                        Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:01    43    22      0   294  (WNW)    288   Cirrus      None
     17:01    40    23      6   253  (WSW)    322   Cirrus      None
     18:01    36    21      8   296  (WNW)    309   Cirrus      None
     19:01    38    19      7   358  (N)      247   Cirrus      None
     20:01    38    17     17     9  (N)      235   Cirrus      None
     21:01    41    13      8    31  (NNE)    214   Cirrus      None
     22:01    38    16     15    14  (NNE)    207   Cirrus      None
     23:01    38    16     12     4  (N)      130   Cirrus      None
     00:01    39    19      3   346  (NNW)    218   Cirrus      None
     02:01    38    21     11   323  (NW)     223   Clear       None
     03:01    36    20      7   345  (NNW)    209   Clear       None
     04:01    37    19      6   314  (NW)     249   Clear       None
     05:01    39    19      7   286  (WNW)    214   Clear       None
     06:01    39    20     12   326  (NW)     240   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 Ctrlv3.0b27. Current TCC version is 2.4.1
  Current MC version: v1_7_3.