Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 07:17:43 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20091001
From: "Jack Dembicky"
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                       Thursday October 01, 2009
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)             INSTRUMENT    START  FINISH
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 M.Klaene       J.Dembicky      TSPEC, DIS, Echelle   19:00 07:36
                                  SPIcam, NA2guider
  PROG        SCHEDULED      WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH    D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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 EN01/O     18:56  06:50     0    0    0    0   1.3  10.6  0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument chanyes, some ge time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
Engineering tonight.
SPIcam throughput measurements.  Data located in
/export/images/Q4APO/UT091002/throuoghput/spicam/... (yes, I mispelled throughput!)
DIS throughput measurements.  Data located in /export/images/Q4APO/UT091002/throughput/dis/...
Tert Piston Tests for -2500, -2250, -2000, -1750, -1500
Separate email sent to Bill K.
06:55:39 Read timed out on port LTA4 (controller error on Alt, not responding).  I couldn't seem
to log into talk2boxes and talk to the controller (Controller is not Available).  I think it was
in the midst of rebooting itself.  I hit a top button and let it sit for a few minutes and it came
back online automatically when I restarted the drives.
Collimation looked good (no adjustment made)
scat doesn't seem to be working anymore on OBS1 to lookup stars.
Results
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Goodness of fit 1.00
Defoc: Move M2 towards M1 by .003 mm
SA3: move focal plane outwards by .000 mm
Coma3: decenter M2N1 by .123 mm and Bak by .009 mm
eAuriga (both Echelle and TSPEC)
Data can be found in /export/images/Q4APO/UT091002/eAuriga/...
11:04:34 Controller error (not responding)  agin on Alt.  Looked similiar to what I saw happen
earlier with the same read timed out on port LTA4.  I stopped the drives and then re-init after a
couple mins.
I aborted at image 1434 on the eAuriga TSPEC images.  Re-slewed, re-acquired  and restarted the
nod sequence again.  A few images before this may be bad.
The NoIllum calibrations had the vacuum pump lamp on (I didn't know how to turn it off).  I took a
second set with the eyelid closed (NoIllum_eyelid_closed.
The BrQrtz flats also had the vacuum pump lamp on.
No tracking problems with TSPEC slitviewer while boresight guiding.
                ------------- FAILURE LOG --------------
  PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
      (STEDFNVOG)   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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 19:52 SPICAM    99(  515) -71  43  11.2 11.0 11.2 10.4 10.9   V     1.00
 19:54 NA2gdr  -478(29521) -71  43  10.9 11.0 11.2 10.5 10.9   clear 0.91
 22:05 dis-slit   119(260) 216  38  10.7 10.3 10.6  9.6 10.1   --    1.23
 22:08 NA2gdr  1685(23685) 216  38  10.6 10.3 10.7  9.6 10.2   R     0.96
 22:48 GUIDER   282(  650) -42  50  10.5 10.2 10.7  9.9 10.3   R+ND2 0.76
 01:31 SHACK   -200(  662)  20  57   9.4  9.3  9.6  8.5  9.2   --    0.80
 02:15 ECHELLE  -118(-763) 121  52   9.7  9.0  9.3  8.2  8.9   ND3   0.90
 03:12 TSPEC    133(  457) 124  64   9.4  8.6  8.8  7.6  8.3   Ks    0.90
                 ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:00    53    11      5   304   (NW)   1221    clear     none
     17:00    54    12     12   301  (WNW)   1134    clear     none
     18:00    54    13     13   277    (W)   1212    clear     none
     19:00    51    12     15   269    (W)   1176    clear     none
     20:00    52    13     14   268    (W)   1364    clear     none
     21:00    51    14     15   269    (W)   1444    clear     none
     22:00    51    14     10   260    (W)   1515    clear     none
     23:00    51    15     12   243  (WSW)   1736    clear     none
     00:00    50    15      9   263    (W)   1730    clear     none
     01:00    50    12     12   264    (W)   1325    clear     none
     02:00    49    11     19   271    (W)   1160    clear     none
     03:00    47    10     12   275    (W)   1114    clear     none
     04:00    49     8      9   265    (W)    979    clear     none
     05:00    48     9      9   263    (W)   1053    clear     none
     06:00    47     9     10   267    (W)   1228    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: 2.10.0
      Current TUI version: TUI 1.6