Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 13:12:59 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20071103
From: "Gabrelle Saurage"
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                       Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)             INSTRUMENT    START  FINISH
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J.Frieman       D.McGinnis              DIS           18:50  01:00
G.Kacprzak      G.Kacprzak              SPICAM        01:10  06:10
   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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 UC01.R/R   19:06  01:05    0    0    0    0    0   6.0   0    0    0
 NM09/R     01:05  05:29    0    0    0    0    0   3.9   0    0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialists: G.Saurage
AzVelScales: 584.4, 588.1 avg 586.3 (no change)
Thin clouds first half, but good seeing most of the night.
19:00 Obs1 machine froze. After reboot, it would not allow logins. Fritz
discovered the external hard drive needed a power-cycle as well.
21:35 DIS slitviewer needed a nubs restart.
At 1:30 and again at 4:30, SPICAM images looked a little elongated in the
Az direction, not trailing but elongated. The NA2 guider seemed to be
fine; image quality was good and guiding was not struggling. There was
little wind to speak of and we had recently focused. These images were on
the same object. This seemed to be caused by the astigmatism seen when the
focus value is too high. Consistently, the focus script calculated a focus
value that was about 50 microns too high.
                       ------- 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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 20:28 dis-slit  -124(119) -26  54  9.4 10.0 9.7   8.4  8.9      0.9
 01:28 SPICAM    -77(255)   44  53  8.6  8.6 9.0   7.6  8.3      0.6
 05:52 SPICAM    -60(271)  -62  42  8.9  8.2 8.7   7.2  8.2      1.0
                ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    53    28      4   218   (SW)   2377 mstly clr    none
     17:00    54    28      7   198  (SSW)   2273 mstly clr    none
     18:00    49    28      1   177    (S)   2305 mstly clr    none
     19:00    50    19      2     2    (N)   2116 mstly clr    none
     20:00    49    26      0   352    (N)   2083 mstly clr    none
     21:00    50    16      1   232   (SW)    677 mstly clr    none
     22:00    51    17      3   256  (WSW)   1190 mstly clr    none
     23:00    49    18      5   180    (S)   1022    clear     none
     00:00    48    16      5   180    (S)    832    clear     none
     01:00    48    15      3   177    (S)    650    clear     none
     01:00    48    18      6   180    (S)   1120    clear     none
     02:00    48    21      8   218   (SW)   1304    clear     none
     03:00    48    22      6   190    (S)   1297    clear     none
     04:00    48    28      1   242  (WSW)   1550    clear     none
     05:00    48    27      2   256  (WSW)   1823    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: 2.9.1
      Current TUI version: TUI 1.4.1