Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:08:49 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20091010
From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu
                       Apache Point Observatory
                       3.5m Telescope Night Log
                       Saturday, October 10, 2009
                                                        ACTUAL
ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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R. Reyes        R. Reyes               DIS            --:--  --:--
M. Gladders     E. Wuyts               NICFPS         04:26  05:56
T. Murphy       R. McMillan            APOLLO         05:56  06:56
  INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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PU02/R     18:44  01:00   5.1  1.2   0    0    0    0    0    0
UC02/R     01:00  05:56    0   3.5   0    0    0   1.4   0    0
DD01/R     05:56  06:56    0    0    0    0    0   1.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: G. Saurage, J.Huehnerhoff
Cloudy weather most of the night.  Cleared up early in the morning with
variable seeing.
Performed long tracks in different areas of the sky with debug on, there
were no problems during these tests.  Later in the night during APOLLO at
12:04 UT there was a motion error while tracking.
APOLLO was successful and observed four reflectors.
                     ------- FAILURE LOG -------
 PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
      (SEDFNVOG)   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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04:50 NICFPS   105(  770) -31  38   8.8  8.8  9.0  8.5  8.7   MK-J  1.22
06:01 APOLLO   100(  884)  81  71   7.1  7.9  8.0  7.3  7.6   CLEAR  1.5
            ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                  Wind                      Precip.or
    Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    51    22     12   209  (SSW)    966 mstly cldy   none
     17:00    50    25     13   214   (SW)   1195 mstly cldy   none
     18:00    49    27     11   197  (SSW)   1067 mstly cldy   none
     19:00    49    25     15   180    (S)   1347   cloudy     none
     20:00    49    26     14   174    (S)   1252   cloudy     none
     21:00    49    27     14   170    (S)   1295   cloudy     none
     22:00    49    29     15   181    (S)   1171   cloudy     none
     23:00    48    29     18   165  (SSE)   1126   cloudy     none
     00:00    49    30     19   185    (S)   1102   cloudy     none
     01:00    50    24     16   184    (S)    819   cloudy     none
     02:00    50    21     19   212  (SSW)    712   cloudy     none
     03:00    50    23     15   186    (S)    786 mstly cldy   none
     04:00    49    23     15   187    (S)    797  ptly cldy   none
     05:00    48    29     19   193  (SSW)    999 mstly clr    none
     06:00    45    33     16   201  (SSW)   1277 mstly clr    none
                             TELESCOPE STATUS
     Telescope drives operational. Current TCC version: 2.11.1
     Current TUI version:  TUI 1.6.2