Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20051209
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:53:10 -0700 (MST)
From: bketzeba@apo.nmsu.edu (Bill Ketzeback)
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                        Friday, December 9, 2005
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START FINISH
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 T.Murphy       T.Murphy                APOLLO         16:50  18:02
 E.Turner       B.Ketzeback             SPICAM         18:10  23:45
 I.Ivans        I.Ivans                 Echelle        00:00  06:43
  INST     SCHED(TWILIGHT)   WEATH     EQUIP     OBS     DAY  NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN    START FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B   USE   D    B
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 DD01/O      17:55  18:02   0    0    0    0    0   0.1  1.1   0    0
 PU02/W      18:02  23:55   0    0    0    0    0   5.9   0    0    0
 PU05/R      23:55  05:57   0    0    0    0   4.1  1.9   0    0    0
 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: B.Ketzeback
 Poor seeing during twilight. Apollo was able to get laser returns off the
 Apollo 15 reflector just 4 minutes after sunset tonight. Apollo 11 was also
 quickly measured. Still no luck on Apollo 14 or the Russian Rover(s).
 However, tonight was still considered another successful night.
 I measured 3 gravitational lenses for the second program under moderate
 conditions.
 Second half went by smoothly despite one occurance of the echelle slitviewer
 crashing and 2 other occurances where the guider window locked up and I
 forced a restart of the ecam software. No time was lost.
                      ------- FAILURE LOG -------
  PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
       (SEDFNVOG)    TI/SHU   START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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 PU05      E          I/H     --:--  --:--   slitviewer crashed and was rebooted
                ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
                                        Air/Truss   Wind
 Time   Instrument   Focus     Az  El    Temp-C    Dir MPH  filt  FWHM
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 18:30 SPIcam      50(752)     -39 81  2.0/2.0    294  13   r     1.01
 22:59 SPIcam      60(732)     -8  69  1.4/0.9    312  8    z     0.89
 23:56 Echelle     68(-212)    23  77  2.5/1.3    342  13   nd2   1.19
 01:46 Echelle     36(-51)     -12 32  2.9/2.2    355  8    nd1   1.83
                ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
     ------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:01    40    -4     11   276  (W)      172 mstly clr   cirrus
     17:01    37    -1     11   298  (WNW)    100   clear     none
     18:01    35     1      9   288  (WNW)    194   clear     none
     19:01    36     0     13   330  (NNW)    306   clear     none
     20:01    35     0     14   331  (NNW)    657   clear     none
     21:01    35     1     19   318  (NW)     853   clear     none
     22:01    35     0     18   323  (NW)     850   clear     none
     23:01    35    -3     10   283  (WNW)    538   clear     none
     00:01    37     0     14   323  (NW)     381   clear     none
     01:01    37    -2     18   357  (N)      278   clear     none
     02:01    37    -4      8   331  (NNW)    426   clear     none
     03:01    37     5     11   345  (NNW)    171   clear     none
     04:01    38    -4     14     4  (N)      403   clear     none
     05:01    37    -5     15   334  (NNW)    381   clear     none
     06:01    35    -5      8   288  (WNW)    397   clear     none
     07:01    36    -2     13   351  (N)      374   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
      Telescope drives operational. Current TCC version: 2.8
      Current TUI version: TUI 1.1