Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:58:52 -0700 (MST)
From: Jack Dembicky
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20080109
                         Apache Point Observatory
                         3.5m Telescope Night Log
                        Wednesday, January 09, 2008
                                                           ACTUAL
  ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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 D.York           D.York                 Echelle        17:20  23:55
 J.Greene         J.Greene               SPIcam         00:10  06:40
   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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 UC02/R       18:12  00:10   0    0    0    0   5.5  0.4   0    0    0
 PU03/R       00:10  06:09   0    0    0    0   6.0   0    0    0    0
   note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
 No problems.  Pointing was great with the echelle tonight, didn't have to
 correct for it.  Seeing was misserable all night long, 2+ arc sec or
 worse for most of the night. It got worse second half with seeing in the
 3-6 arc sec area (yes, that bad!). Sloan and the DIMM reported equally
 horrible seeing estimates.
 We had a power loss for just a second during the first half.  It knocked
 off the drives and reset the mirror covers, but nothing else seemed
 affected.  Power dropped for just a sec and we went back to utility.  No
 observing time was lost as Don was just finishing reading out his
 exposure and about to slew when it happened.
                       ------- 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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 18:01 Echelle   44(-960)  217  45  -0.7  1.7  0.6  0.7 -0.3  ND3  1.9
 21:13 Echelle -12(-1200)  237  72  -1.9 -1.7 -1.0 -2.2 -1.9  ND3  2.7
 00:12 SPIcam     6(-404)  170  80  -5.8 -5.2 -4.6 -5.6 -5.6  g'   2.2
 00:18 NA2gdr       -3000  176  80  -5.8 -5.3 -4.7 -5.7 -5.7  R    2.0
                 ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    34    22     15   238  (WSW)    956    cldy      none
     17:00    31    23     21   209  (SSW)    986    cldy      none
     18:00    31    23     18   219   (SW)   1190   pt. cldy   none
     19:00    30    20     15   219   (SW)   1463   pt. cldy   none
     20:00    30    15     16   280    (W)   1599    clear     none
     21:00    29    14     19   280    (W)    963    clear     none
     22:00    27    15     24   287  (WNW)    658    clear     none
     23:00    25    16     12   316   (NW)   1418    clear     none
     00:00    22    14     19    19  (NNE)    357    clear     none
     01:00    21     9      7   355    (N)    264   pt. cldy   none
     02:00    22     7     31    20  (NNE)    512   pt. cldy   none
     03:00    23     5     14    14  (NNE)    202   pt. cldy   none
     04:00    24     5     11    37   (NE)    169    clear     none
     05:00    22     6     19   354    (N)    189    clear     none
     06:00    22     6     10    14  (NNE)    186    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 1.4.4