Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 05:56:04 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jack Dembicky
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20060526
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                          Friday, May 26, 2006
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START FINISH
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 Q.Hart          Q.Hart, J.Stocke       SPIcam         19:00  00:50
 A.Bender        A.Bender, N.Alpers     NICFPS         01:00  06:00
                 J.Jones
  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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 CU03/R      21:05  01:00   0    0    0    0   3.9   0    0    0    0
 CU04/R      01:00  04:56   0    0    0    0   3.9   0    0    0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
 We had a brown furry visitor tonight in the building, just as the sun was
 setting.  A brown bear decided to be right neighborly and check
 out the ops building.  Luckily I walked out of the control room door
 just as he walked in the main door.  He decided maybe inside the
 building wasn't where he really wanted to be, especially after we made
 some noise.
 At the first focus field DS9/IRAF did something strange (on both my and
 my observers machine) and would not read the image in correctly.
 Previous spicam images (flats) were read fine.  I exited DS9/IRAF and
 started both up fresh and it then read the file correctly.
 Tested NICFPS focus script on-sky tonight.  First attempt failed when the
 star was a little too out of focus (small doughnut).  nfocus centroid
 failed.  I then let it start where it should be closer to focus, and
 again it failed. (same error)
 When I went to view an image I manually took it messed my IRAF/DS9 up
 again. (can't open device (node!imtool).  I am guessing this may have had
 something with me checking the view image box.  I restarted DS9/IRAF and
 was again able to view the images
 For grins I tried running the focus script one last time with the view
 image off, but still it could not find a star to centroid on (stars were
 20-30k on FS1). I focused NICFPS manually at this point.
 No problems, the guider worked fine with SPIcam (I took the images,
 30sec) and they didn't use it for 2nd half with NICFPS.
                       ------- 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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 20:54  SPIcam    -50(1323)   173  74   15.6/17.3  268  13   r'   0.71
 00:59  NICFPS    100(1548)   240  73   12.9/13.5  269  16   Ks   0.77
 03:02  NICFPS    125(1538)   239  62   11.8/11.9  276  22   Ks   0.92
                ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
     18:01    71    27      9   224  (SW)    1771  Lt. Cirrus  none
     19:01    67    24     15   270  (W)     1524    Clear     none
     20:01    62    18     14   271  (W)     1529    Clear     none
     21:01    60    15     13   267  (W)     1964    Clear     none
     22:01    59    15      8   285  (WNW)   2408    Clear     none
     23:01    59    14     15   295  (WNW)   2153    Clear     none
     00:01    58    13     15   282  (WNW)   1496    Clear     none
     01:01    56    14     13   269  (W)     1172    Clear     none
     02:01    54    14     16   264  (W)     1255    Clear     none
     03:01    53    14     17   275  (W)     1569    Clear     none
     04:01    52    16     14   268  (W)     1592    Clear     none
     05:01    51    18     18   282  (WNW)   1730    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: 2.8.4
      Current TUI version: TUI 1.1