Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20070128
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:56:16 -0700 (MST)
From: bketzeba@apo.nmsu.edu (Bill Ketzeback)
                         Apache Point Observatory
                         3.5m Telescope Night Log
                         Sunday, January 28, 2007
                                                           ACTUAL
  ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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 J.Bochanski      K.Kinemuchi            DIS            17:00  22:25
 T.Murphy         R.McMillan             APOLLO         22:30  23:30
 I.Ivans          I.Ivans                Echelle        00:00  02:30
   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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 UW14/R       18:28 22:30    0    0    0    0    0   4.0   0    0    0
 DD01/O       22:30 00:00    0   0.5   0    0    0   1.0   0    0    0
 PU01/R       00:00 06:05   1.6  2.0   0    0    0   2.5   0    0    0
   note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                 ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: B.Ketzeback
 Rather thick cirrus all night. APOLLO got returns but not many, they
 gave up early because of clouds. The second half observer was having
 a terrible time with a network connection. Combined with the cloud
 cover she gave up at 02:30. I offered to take over observations for
 her due to the huge network lag she was experiencing but she declined
 my offer. Even after turning off autget and windowing echelle slitviewer
 images to be quite small, the image backup became so long that she needed
 to wait 15 minutes between objects for the downloads to catch up so
 she could slew. The clouds were much to thick at this point to do any
 useful on sky engineering tasks so I closed. I spent the time developing
 an auto-emailer for Russet to remind APOLLO spotters. A PR was created
 for the new NA2gdr focus script in TUI.
                        ------- FAILURE LOG -------
   PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
        (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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                ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
 Time  Instrument   Focus   Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt  FWHM
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 18:14 dis-slit -163(-373) 286  72  -1.2  1.8  0.1 -0.1 -0.4  -     1.2
 18:21 NA2gdr -3492(27607) 287  70  -1.2  1.6  0.0 -0.2 -0.5  R+nd2 0.74
 22:35 apollo     -25(531) 265  69  -0.3 -0.8 -1.5 -1.2 -0.3  -     1.0
 00:17 Echelle  -68(-1118) 255  77  -0.4 -0.8 -1.4 -1.2 -0.4  nd2   1.9
                 ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                    Wind                      Precip.or
      Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    34     7                  ??    426 mstly cldy   none
     17:00    32     6                  ??    434 mstly cldy   none
     18:00    30     3                  ??    444 mstly cldy   none
     19:00    30     2                  ??    427 mstly cldy   none
     20:00    28     3                  ??    466 mstly cldy   none
     21:00    30     2                  ??    451 mstly cldy   none
     22:00    31   -10                  ??    298 mstly cldy   none
     23:00    31    -6                  ??    451 mstly cldy   none
     00:00    31     0                  ??    481 mstly cldy   none
     01:00    32     0                  ??    716   cloudy     none
     02:00    32    -3                  ??    606   cloudy     none
     03:00    31     1                  ??    491   cloudy     none
     04:00    31    -6                  ??    326   cloudy     none
     05:00    31    -4                  ??    537   cloudy     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: 2.8.5
       Current TUI version: TUI 1.2