Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20080611
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:39:51 -0600 (MDT)
From: bketzeba@apo.nmsu.edu (Bill Ketzeback)
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                       Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)             INSTRUMENT    START  FINISH
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 J.Fulbright     G.Ruchti                Echelle       20:15  01:01
 J.Frieman       J.Kubo                  SPIcam        01:10  05:50
   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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 JH06/R     21:15  01:05    0    0    0   0.1   0   3.7   0    0    0
 UC03/R     01:05  04:51    0    0    0    0   2.9  0.9   0    0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: B.Ketzeback
Az Velocity Scales: 578.9, 576.6; 577.8 was 581.0, no change made.
Clear skies all night with moderate to good seeing. The Echelle slitview
had 2 crashes between 2200 and 2210. I am counting 6 minutes total time
lost.
No problems the remainder of the night.
                       ------- FAILURE LOG -------
  PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
       (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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  JH06    E         I/H       22:00  22:06    Slitviewer frozen, restarted
               ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument   Focus    Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt FWHM
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 20:24 ECHELLE  -113(-291)  62  70  17.4 18.8 19.0 17.7 17.5   nd2 0.92
 22:16 ECHELLE   -79(-319)   7  35  16.6 16.7 17.4 16.0 16.4   nd1 1.35
 01:15 SPICAM   -20(  554) -16  81  15.1 14.8 15.4 14.4 14.7   r   0.98
 01:23 NA2gdr   111(30111) -27  78  14.8 14.8 15.3 14.3 14.6 R+nd2 0.97
                ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    72    17     30   259    (W)   2430    clear     dust
     17:00    73    16     34   249  (WSW)   2430    clear     dust
     18:00    70    15     26   268    (W)   2637    clear     dust
     19:00    68    16     26   247  (WSW)   1229    clear     none
     20:00    65    12     28   261    (W)   1784    clear     none
     21:00    63    12     21   269    (W)   1468    clear     none
     22:00    62    13     13   263    (W)   1599    clear     none
     23:00    61    15     19   249  (WSW)   1676    clear     none
     00:00    59    18     12   263    (W)   1973    clear     none
     01:00    59    21     17   292  (WNW)   2169    clear     dust
     02:00    58    24     17   297  (WNW)   2356    clear     dust
     03:00    57    24     12   276    (W)   2356    clear     dust
     04:00    57    24     17   301  (WNW)   2392    clear     dust
     05:00    56    25     13   298  (WNW)   2512    clear     dust
     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