Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20050630
Date: Fri,  1 Jul 2005 06:30:23 -0600 (MDT)
From: bketzeba@apo.nmsu.edu (Bill Ketzeback)
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                        Thursday, June 30, 2005
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START FINISH
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 A.Mukadam      A.Mukadam               SPIcam         20:15 06:30
  INST     SCHED(TWILIGHT)   WEATH     EQUIP     OBS     DAY  NOT USED
 I/RO/DN     START FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B   USE   D    B
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 UW02/R      21:19 04:56    0   1.0   0    0   4.9  1.7   0    0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: B.Ketzeback
 Scattered clouds most of the night with less than 1 hour of clear skies.
 Winds were primarily from the east - northeast after 2200 resulted in
 2.0+ arcsecond seeing most of the night. Conditions never seemed threatening
 enough to close however between 0300 and 0400 clouds kept us from observing.
 Shortly before 2200 I lost, and could not regain control of, the NA2 guider.
 I tried everything I could to restore it however I eventually called Craig
 who talked me through the problem. Because of the clouds and seeing the
 guider was not very usable tonight even after we fixed this problem. No
 observing time was lost due to the guider crash.
                      ------- FAILURE LOG -------
  PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
      (SEGDFNVO)    TI/SHU   START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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 UW02      D         T/H     --:--  --:--  Gcam controller/hub interface crashed
                ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
                                        Air/Truss   Wind
 Time   Instrument   Focus     Az  El    Temp-C    Dir MPH  filt  FWHM
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 21:21 SPIcam      75(2047)    140 75  21.7/24.3  185  5    empty 0.84
 21:29 SPIcam      25(1983)    151 53  21.6/24.1  193  6    B     0.9
 21:57 NA2gdr    -3893(25106)  163 55  21.5/23.3  179  4    R     0.87
                ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
     ------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:01    79    32     16   296  (WNW)    631 mstly clr   none
     17:01    83    31     12   273  (W)      517 mstly clr   none
     18:01    81    31     11   274  (W)      478 mstly clr   none
     19:01    76    27      7   261  (W)      426 mstly clr   none
     20:01    73    26      6   270  (W)      498 mstly clr   none
     21:01    72    26      4   249  (WSW)    525 prtly cldy  none
     22:01    70    35     12   126  (SE)     539 prtly cldy  none
     23:01    68    39      6   130  (SE)     622 prtly cldy  none
     00:01    68    37      4   205  (SSW)    623 prtly cldy  none
     01:01    66    39      5    89  (E)      772 prtly cldy  none
     02:01    68    32      0   251  (WSW)    672 prtly cldy  none
     03:01    63    26      4    44  (NE)     726  cloudy     none
     04:01    68    15     15    38  (NE)     510 prtly cldy  none
     05:01    68    16      4   345  (NNW)    273 prtly cldy  none
     06:01    66    18      2   287  (WNW)    514 prtly cldy  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 TCC version: 2.7.2  Current TUI version: TUI 1.0b1