Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:47:58 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: [apo-staff] 3.5m Night Log 20070129
From: "Gabrelle Saurage"
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                        Monday, January 29, 2007
                                                          ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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N.Cunningham    N.Cunningham           NICFPS         17:45  23:53
J.Holtzman      R.Hamilton             Echelle        23:56  06:28
  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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CU06/R      18:29  00:00   0    0    0    0    0   5.5   0    0    0
NM08/R      00:00  06:04   0    0    0    0   0.7  5.4   0    0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: G.Saurage
Mostly clear skies at sunset.
We had some issues with the NICFPS focus script in the latest version of
TUI. Russell was online to work on it. However, I still had problems with
it once he was off and had to stick with focusing manually. The Echelle
focus script seemed to work, but there were a few quirks.
Seeing fluctuated from decent to great over the night.
                       ------- 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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18:10 NICFPS    -125(200) -147 44  -0.4  1.2  0.3 -0.1 -0.2   H   1.5
19:20 NICFPS     -75(230) -146 36  -0.7 -0.4 -0.9 -0.8 -0.8   H   1.0
19:20 Echelle   -68(-1065) -64 34  -0.4 -0.7 -1.3 -1.1 -0.5  ND2  1.0
                ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                Wind                      Precip.or
  Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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  16:00    34    17                  ??    377 mstly clr    none
  17:00    34    14                  ??    368 mstly clr    none
  18:00    31    19                  ??    530 mstly clr    none
  19:00    30    20                  ??    462    clear     none
  20:00    31    18                  ??    401    clear     none
  21:00    31    16                  ??    336    clear     none
  22:00    31    13                  ??    347    clear     none
  23:00    31    15                  ??    468    clear     none
  00:00    31    14                  ??    488    clear     none
  01:00    31    19                  ??    592    clear     none
  02:00    30    18                  ??    693  ptly cldy   none
  03:00    29    20                  ??    691 mstly clr    none
  04:00    29    20                  ??    700  ptly cldy   none
  05:00    29    21                  ??    714 mstly clr    none
  06:00    29    21                  ??    549 mstly clr    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