From: Russet McMillan
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20031029
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:45:24 -0700 (MST)
                         Apache Point Observatory
                         3.5m Telescope Night Log
                        Wednesday, October 29, 2003
                                                          ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)             INSTRUMENT     START FINISH
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 H.Osborne      T.Harrison              DIS            20:40  23:50
 D.Golimowski   D.Golimowski            DIS            00:15  04:50
 B.Gillespie    R.McMillan              S-H            04:50  05:25
  INST        SCHEDULED      WEATH     EQUIP     OBS     DAY  NOT USED
 I/RO/DN     START FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B   USE   D    B
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 NM02/R      18:10  00:00   0   2.5   0    0   3.0  0.3   0    0    0
 JH03/R      00:00  04:50   0    0    0    0   4.8   0    0    0    0
 EN01/O/D    04:50  05:25   0    0    0    0   0.6   0    0    0    0
 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 1st Half Observing Specialist: J.Barentine
 Closed due to dust at the scheduled start time.  Toward 20:30 the dust
level was on its way down, and Sloanies informed me they planned to open.
I opened as well, shortly thereafter.  Clouds thickened during this time
accompanied by strong west winds and poor (~2 arcsec FWHM unfiltered)
seeing.  Continued clouds throughout the remainder of the half and poor,
variable seeing.
 2nd half Observing Specialist: R.McMillan
 Bad seeing (1.5-3 arcsec) and variable cirrus made it very hard for
 the second-half observer to get useful data on his faint targets.
 After trying two objects without success, he switched over to a
 lower-priority backup program.  But even so he ran short of usable
 targets before the night was over.  I asked and he kindly agreed to
 let me try some work with the Shack-Hartmann, delaying his cals
 until twilight.  The time turned out to be very valuable: I managed
 to fix the tertiary tilts for the SH and get a couple of stars at
 different altitudes through thin clouds.
                     ------- FAILURE LOG -------
 PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
      (SEGDFVO)    TI/SHU   START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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                ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
                                        Air/Truss   Wind
 Time   Instrument   Focus     Az  El    Temp-C    Dir MPH  filt  FWHM
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 20:52 dis-slit    100(914)    198 77  9.5/11.0   278  22   -     1.19
 22:24 NA2gdr      0(44000)    292 29  8.7/9.1    279  28   R     1.75
 00:23 DISslit     75(835)     236 41  7.3/7.5    264  21   -     2.25
                 -------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                 Wind                        Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:01    59    21     18   259  (W)     1616  PtlyCldy    none
     17:01    52    20     18   246  (WSW)   3395  PtlyCldy    none
     18:01    49    20     14   243  (WSW)   4875  PtlyCldy    none
     19:01    49    20     14   249  (WSW)   3063  PtlyCldy    none
     20:01    49    21     14   285  (WNW)   1213  PtlyCldy    none
     21:01    49    21     22   281  (W)      875  PtlyCldy    none
     22:01    48    21     24   262  (W)      694  PtlyCldy    none
     23:01    48    20     21   266  (W)      711  PtlyCldy    none
     00:01    46    20     22   269  (W)      668   cirrus     none
     01:01    45    19     21   266  (W)      623   cirrus     none
     02:01    43    19     19   279  (W)      981   cirrus     none
     03:01    41    20     23   266  (W)      707  mstly clr   none
     04:01    40    21     16   267  (W)      738   cirrus     none
     05:01    39    22     15   284  (WNW)    750   cirrus     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
   Telescope drives operational. Current Remark version: 2.85b
   Current guide software version: guider v4.1b4
   Current TCC version: 2.7.1  Current TUI version: TUI-0.75