Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20071129
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:33:54 -0700 (MST)
From: bketzeba@apo.nmsu.edu (Bill Ketzeback)
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                     Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT      START  FINISH
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 M.Klaene       B.Ketzeback            Guider,Fastcam, 16:00 06:30
                                       SH
   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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 EN01/W     17:54  05:49    0    0    0    0   3.5  8.5   0    0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: B.Ketzeback
 AzVelScales: Was: 590.0 Measured: 589.5, 594.0 avg 591.8 (no change)
 Mostly clear skies tonight.
 Fritz tested and spent alot of time tuning the new rotator axis controller
 the start of the night. There was some unexpected problem interfacing
 the new software with the tcc however Fritz believes he knows how to
 fix this particular problem. At 2200 we switched back to the old controller,
 zeroed the rotator and ran some test slews.
 I then started a large pointing model. The results of the 120 point fit
 were quite bad. I spent some time editing out points to improve the solution
 but I ended up with a 58 point data set when was all said and done to get
 the errors to around 3 arcseconds. I did implement the model however
 it might be best to resort back to the last pointing model after Russet
 and Mark have time to review the plots. Another pointing model may be
 required.
 I next spent several hours collecting fastcam data. The tcc was not
 recording weather data. Perhaps as a result of some other tcc tests
 that were being done this evening by John Brinkman. The lack of weather
 data caused my data logger for fastcam to fail however I will mine
 weather data from another source when I reduce tonights datasets.
 I ended up the night using the Shack-Hartmann to check collimation under
 fair to good seeing conditions.
 No other problems tonight.
                       ------- 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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 22:32 GUIDER   100(  284)  95  78   5.8  5.5  5.8  4.9  5.5   R  1.41
 03:15 FASTCAM3 -350(1086) 234  59  10.0  4.5  5.0  4.0  4.6   -  1.50
 04:58 SHACK   -200(  486) -99  62   4.4  4.3  4.7  4.1  4.4   -  1.00
                ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    44    15     12   281    (W)    175 mstly cldy   none
     17:00    43    14     15   292  (WNW)    173 mstly cldy   none
     18:00    43    17     15   294  (WNW)    367  ptly cldy   none
     19:00    44    16      8   309   (NW)    349  ptly cldy   none
     20:00    44    18      9   315   (NW)    269 mstly clr    none
     21:00    42    19      7   260    (W)    306 mstly clr    none
     22:00    43    20     12   264    (W)    286    clear     none
     23:00    44    21     13   248  (WSW)    286    clear     none
     00:00    43    21     16   244  (WSW)    374    clear     none
     01:00    41    20     15   226   (SW)    389    clear     none
     02:00    40    21     14   251  (WSW)    315    clear     none
     03:00    41    21     14   265    (W)    247    clear     none
     04:00    40    21     15   270    (W)    253 mstly clr    none
     05:00    40    23     16   268    (W)    387 mstly cldy   none
     06:00    39    25     15   262    (W)    401   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: 2.9.1
      Current TUI version: TUI 1.4.2