Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:10:14 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20080614
From: "Gabrelle Saurage"
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                        Saturday, June 14th, 2008
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)             INSTRUMENT    START  FINISH
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M.Gladders      E.Wuyts                NICFPS        19:50  01:00
A.Becker        A.Becker               AGILE         01:10  06:00
   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     21:16  01:05    0    0    0    0    0   3.8   0    0    0
 UW03/R     01:05  04:51    0    0    0   0.4  1.0  2.4   0    0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialists: G.Saurage
Az Velo Scales: 577.4, 575.7; 576.5 (no change)
Mostly clear night, variable seeing.
NICFPS was fine at checkout but then when first half observer tried to take darks
the files were all zeros. Took several round of nub restarts and inits to get the
exposures to process properly. Also during first half some vertical streaking was
seen on the NA2 guider (see dcam images 011 and after). Relevant info was added to
PR 829. However, during second half with AGILE the NA2 guider produced no streaking
- Until dcam1702 or so, then it showed up again. The gcamera temps were -17.6 all
night.
Also for second half, we had some trouble sorting out the proper passwords and
passphrases for AGILE logins. At 04:45 observer typed ctrl-c at a "safe" place on
nimble and lost communications to the machine. I tried to login various ways and was
unsuccessful. Nimble had to be power cycled.
                       ------- FAILURE LOG -------
  PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
       (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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UW03       P         I/S      04:45  05:10   Communications to nimble lost
               ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument  Focus    Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt FWHM
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21:03 NICFPS   -31( 1248) 163  68  20.3 22.0 21.1 20.2 19.4   H  1.14
                ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    75    20     14   265    (W)   1041    clear     none
     17:00    78    24     12   219   (SW)   1162    clear     none
     18:00    77    24     10   263    (W)   1253    clear     none
     19:00    75    21     14   249  (WSW)   1375    clear     none
     20:00    70    18      6   268    (W)   1265    clear     none
     21:00    69    17      8   217   (SW)   1299    clear     none
     22:00    68    18      7   184    (S)   1500    clear     none
     23:00    68    18      8   189    (S)   1642    clear     none
     00:00    68    18     12   232   (SW)   1659    clear     none
     01:00    67    18     11   216   (SW)   1712    clear     none
     02:00    65    19     12   187    (S)   1809    clear     none
     03:00    63    22      4   175    (S)   1749    clear     none
     04:00    64    25      9   180    (S)   1770    clear     none
     05:00    63    24     10   176    (S)   1620    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 1.4.5