Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 05:37:44 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20080806
From: "Jack Dembicky"
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                        Wednesday, August 6, 2008
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)             INSTRUMENT    START  FINISH
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 M.Klaene                J.Dembicky               FastCam            20:00  23:00
    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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 EN02/O        20:55  05:23       6.4   0     0     0  0.1 2.0    0       0     0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialists: J.Dembicky
A frustrating start of the night with first my email editor acting up and would not format the
night log correctly (It used a proportional font instead of a fixed width, sorry for the strange
formatting of tonights log).
I got Fastcam focused, went to a star field and  then fastcam's keyboard locked up on me and I
needed to reboot Fastcam PC to fix.  I also had a couple reboots of the Streampix software too,
was the software recently upgraded?  The initial window is small and has to be expanded manually.
I then had a couple questions for Bill, regarding using his weatherlog script for FastCam.  By
this time the clear sky at sunset had turned into clouds on me!  I managed to get only 1 star thru
the clouds and I don't know if the data will be useful or not.  I tried several attempts at
various stars but by the time I acquired the star and got it positioned on the chip the clouds
moved over the field and I had to try to find another sucker hole and star.  After about 23:00 the
clouds were completely over us.   Around 05:00 a sucker hole appeared but clouds appeared to be
closing it up, I also saw flashes of lightning in the basin and the wind was basically calm  1u per 0.1 cubic feet.
                              TELESCOPE STATUS
      Telescope drives operational. Current TCC version: 2.9.1
      Current TUI version: TUI 1.5