Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20060226
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:59:56 -0700 (MST)
From: bketzeba@apo.nmsu.edu (Bill Ketzeback)
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                       Sunday, February 26, 2006
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START FINISH
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 D.York          D.York, C.Grady,       GFP            18:05  05:15
                 G.Hilton
                 D.York                 Echelle        05:20  05:45
                 D.York                 GFP            05:50  06:30
  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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 UC07/O      18:52  05:40   0    0    0    0  10.8   0    0    0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: B.Ketzeback
 First half the observer fought to get through broken to scattered cloud cover.
 Around 2200 the skies started to clear. At 0515 we switched to the echelle
 to a spectrum of a nova in outburst then switched back to the gfp for sky
 flats. The only trouble all night other than weather was that instrument
 kept loosing lock and needed to be reset. Luckily the observers determined
 how to reset the instrument remotely and no time was lost going to the
 observing level to rest the electronics.
                      ------- FAILURE LOG -------
  PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
       (SEDFNVOG)    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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 19:54 gfp         200(1081)   192 77  6.8/6.1    184  13   R     1.19
 01:34 gfp         350(1172)   145 51  4.2/3.2    234  17   6403  0.99
 01:40 NA2gdr      -211(32788) 147 52  4.0/3.3    227  14   clear 1.07
 04:00 gfp         250(1073)   207 54  3.9/3.5    264  15   6403  0.69
                ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
     ------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:01    40    17      8   129  (SE)     535 mstly cldy  none
     17:01    40    11     10   194  (SSW)    535 mstly cldy  none
     18:01    42     5     13   195  (SSW)    566 mstly cldy  none
     19:01    43     3     11   191  (S)      517 mstly cldy  none
     20:01    42     5     12   177  (S)      579 mstly cldy  none
     21:01    39    15     13   185  (S)      639 mstly cldy  none
     22:01    40    22     12   175  (S)      741 mstly cldy  none
     23:01    40    23     16   194  (SSW)    760 prtly cldy  none
     00:01    37    23     13   198  (SSW)    680 mstly clr   none
     01:01    39    21     14   215  (SW)     683 mstly clr   none
     02:01    40    20     11   231  (SW)     791   clear     none
     03:01    40    21     13   259  (W)     1054 mstly clr   none
     04:01    39    23     10   265  (W)     1113 mstly clr   none
     05:01    39    21     13   269  (W)     1058   clear     none
     06:01    40    20     17   283  (WNW)   1123   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