Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20080317
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:52:26 -0700 (MST)
From: bketzeba@apo.nmsu.edu (Bill Ketzeback)
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                         Monday, March 17, 2008
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)             INSTRUMENT    START  FINISH
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 J.Coughlin      J.Coughlin              DIS           18:00  21:36
   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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 NM04/R     20:06  06:16   0.8  7.9   0    0    0   1.5   0    0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: W.Ketzeback
 Azimuth Velocity Scale: Was 589.0 Measured 589.2, 593, average 591.3.
 No change made.
 We opened for the first few hours until clouds became too thick. There
 was evidence that we had precip headed our way in our radar blind spot
 from the east by looking at Satellite images, weather radar out of
 El Paso and Cannon AFB. We never had the oppurtunity to reopen.
 I spent the night working on fastcam reductions.
                       ------- FAILURE LOG -------
  PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
      (SAEDFNVOG)   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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 18:46 dis-slit  -87(-499)   33  75  -2.8 -0.2 -0.5 -1.1 -2.0   --  1.98
                ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    34     0     21   265    (W)    857  ptly cldy   none
     17:00    31    -2     17   246  (WSW)    687  ptly cldy   none
     18:00    30    -1     13   267    (W)    666  ptly cldy   none
     19:00    29    -1      9   285  (WNW)        mstly cldy   none
     20:00    27    -1     11   309   (NW)        mstly cldy   none
     21:00    27    -3      6   292  (WNW)    594   cloudy     none
     22:00    27    -1      5   305   (NW)    593   cloudy     none
     23:00    27    -1      1   334  (NNW)    640   cloudy     none
     00:00    26    -1      8     2    (N)    791   cloudy     none
     01:00    27    -3     19    18  (NNE)    497   cloudy     none
     02:00    27    -5     13    15  (NNE)    500   cloudy     none
     03:00    27     0      8    55   (NE)    862   cloudy     none
     04:00    27    -3     24    17  (NNE)    730   cloudy     none
     05:00    27    -4     16    26  (NNE)    520  ptly cldy   none
     06:00    26    -4     21    36   (NE)    552  ptly cldy   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 1.4.5