Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 06:33:34 -0700 (MST)
From: Jack Dembicky
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20010209
                        APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                       Friday, February 9th, 2001
                                                          ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER    OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT       START  FINISH
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 D.York        D.York,B.Lowenstein    Echelle          18:26  00:05
 V.Narayanan   V.Narayanan            GrIm II (f/5?)   00:30  06:10
               X.Fan
   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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 UC04/R      18:38  00:10   0    0    0    0   1.0  4.5   0    0    0
 PU02/R      00:10  05:56   0    0    0   0.1   0   5.7   0    0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                 ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist, 1st Shift: Noel Camron Hastings
    We opened the dome at 16:30 MST to begin cooling. All started up well
except the Echelle again had cooling problems. Craig and I visually
checked certain solenoid operations and then I manually cooled the CCD
again after the shield had cooled automatically. It appears that the CCD
temperature sensor may be failing.
    Early on, the pointing with the Echelle was very poor. I made two
corrections and that seemed to clear it up. Bob Lowenstein logged on and
used some of Don's time to test Echelle auto-guider routines. Echelle
observations after that seemed to run smoothly.
 Observing Specialist, 2nd Shift: Jack Dembicky
2nd half started without any problems.  Change-over occured at 00:05.
GRIM was only reading out the bottom 1/2 of the chips (top half was all
grey) and needed to be power cycled & its ICC rebooted.  This caused the
instrument switch to take about 7 mins longer than scheduled. Everything
ran smoothly otherwise with no further problems the rest of the night.
         --------------- INSTRUMENT FOCUS LOG ----------------
                                       Air/Truss   Wind
 Time   Instrument   Focus     Az El    Temp-C    Dir MPH  filt  FWHM"
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 18:20  Echelle    166(224)    165 71  -0.7/+0.2   195   3  clear 0.71"
 00:15  GrIm f/5  -110(372)   -148 60  -3.8/-3.4   153  14    J   1.02"
 00:43  NA2gdr   -3785(55215) -136 56  -3.3/-3.6   171  20  none  1.41"
 01:55  GrIm f/5   -50(440)    183 56  -2.9/-3.4   155  16    J   1.37"
              ------------- WEATHER CONDITIONS ------------
                                 Wind                        Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:01    33    11      5   268  (W)      683   Clear       None
     17:01    32    11      1   235  (SW)     679   Clear       None
     18:01    28    -8      3   196  (SSW)    481   Clear       None
     19:01    29   -17      7   186  (S)      390   Clear       None
     20:01    30   -17     13   179  (S)      332   Clear       None
     21:01    29   -17     16   179  (S)      290   Clear       None
     22:01    30   -17     17   178  (S)      284   Clear       None
     23:01    28   -14     18   166  (SSE)    341   Clear       None
     00:01    27    -8     14   152  (SSE)    274   Clear       None
     01:01    27    -6     21   192  (SSW)    192 Lt. Cirrus    None
     02:01    26    -6     12   165  (SSE)    288   Clear       None
     03:01    26    -4     17   153  (SSE)    321   Clear       None
     04:01    27    -1     18   171  (S)      676   Clear       None
     05:01    35    -1     19   177  (S)      877   Clear       None
     06:01    32     5     15   174  (S)      971   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 2.5.0b2  Current MC version: v1_7_3.