Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:04:06 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20090116
From: "Gabrelle Saurage"
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                        Friday, January 16th, 2009
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)              INSTRUMENT   START  FINISH
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 M.Sun           M.Sun, R.Beaton          SPICAM       18:25  23:06
 D.York          D.York                   ECHELLE      23:11  00:01
 G.Wallerstein   J.Hughes                 SPICAM       00:05  07:00
   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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 UV02/R     18:18  23:10    0    0    0    0   4.4   0    0    0    0
 UC01/R     23:10  00:10    0    0    0    0   0.5  0.5   0    0    0
 UW11/R     00:10  06:09    0    0    0   0.8   0   5.2   0    0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialists: G.Saurage
Clear skies, excellent seeing all night. Pointing seemed to be fine with both SPICAM
and ECHELLE with two tertiary moves.
At checkout ecam needed to be power-cycled.
The SPICAM focus script worked fine during the first half. We switched to ECHELLE
for an hour and switched back, then SPICAM focus script didn't work.
Got the following message:
Failed: unbound method formatExposeArgs() must be called with BaseFocusScript
instance as first argument (got ScriptClass instance instead)
This error was reported previously in PR #777. Added tonight's info. The solution
was to reload the script.
Later Spicam ICC seemed to spontaneously lose connections. After sitting on an
object for some time a new set of exposures failed. See PR #928. Restarting the ICC,
nubs and init fixed it.
Most of the time while using SPICAM tonight I also ran the AutoFocusRev14. Seemed to
keep up with focus well.
                       ------- FAILURE LOG -------
  PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
       (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 UW11     S          T/S      00:06  00:36   focus script failed
 UW11     S          I/S      04:20  04:35   SPICAM exposure failed
               ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument  Focus    Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt FWHM
 -----------------------------------------------------------------
 18:39 SPICAM   -88(   36) 137  55   3.1  5.3  4.0  4.2  3.5   NMSU 677.6  0.64
 23:22 ECHELLE -161(-1095) -22  44   3.3  2.9  3.2  2.1  2.9   ND1         0.75
 00:31 SPICAM  -213( -241)  72  80   2.8  2.5  2.7  1.8  2.4   strom u     0.77
 01:07 SPICAM  -175( -183)  13  39   2.2  2.2  2.3  1.1  1.8   strom v     1.06
                ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:00    41     8      4    21  (NNE)    419    clear     none
     17:00    40     8      9   358    (N)    468    clear     none
     18:00    38     6      4   349    (N)   1166    clear     none
     19:00    37     6      6   358    (N)     52    clear     none
     20:00    34     6      6   357    (N)    277    clear     none
     21:00    36     5      5   358    (N)     40    clear     none
     22:00    39     0      5   291  (WNW)     23    clear     none
     23:00    38     0      9   312   (NW)     39    clear     none
     00:00    38     0     12   304   (NW)     36    clear     none
     01:00    36     4      6   302  (WNW)     97    clear     none
     02:00    36     6      9   293  (WNW)    403    clear     none
     03:00    36     8     17   321   (NW)    484    clear     none
     04:00    35     9      7   299  (WNW)    639    clear     none
     05:00    34    10     13   312   (NW)    527    clear     none
     06:00    35    10     14   330  (NNW)    602    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 1.5.1