Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:12:10 -0700 (MST)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20091106
From: "Jack Dembicky"
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                        Friday November 06, 2009
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)             INSTRUMENT    START  FINISH
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 Y.Shen         Y.Shen, X.Liu           TSPEC         16:55  00:00
 T.Murphy       R.McMillan              Apollo        00:00  01:00
 S.Schmidt      S.Schmidt               TSPEC         01:00  06:20
  PROG        SCHEDULED      WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH    D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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 PU07/R     17:16  00:00     0    0    0    0   3.4  3.3   0    0
 DD01/R     00:00  00:00     0    0    0    0    0   1.0   0    0
 UW04/R     00:00  06:18     0    0    0    0    0   5.3   0    0
   note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
TSPEC again having problems boresight guiding (keeping the star on the boresight) tonight.  I
don't think it was the star was too dim tonight as I increased the exp and the s/n was decent.
Star just wanted to drift like the boresight offset corrections weren't being used.
Pointing was good enough for TSPEC but not for APOLLO.  We re-homed the tertiary for APOLLO.
No problems otherwise, and pointing was very close after the telescope was homed (it wasn't too
far off before with TSPEC anyhow)
                ------------- 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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 17:53 TSPEC   116(  632)  -4  56  10.2 12.3 11.3 11.2 11.2   Ks  1.10
 01:14 TSPEC   122(  470) -64  35   9.1  8.3  8.8  7.3  8.3   Ks  1.10
                 ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:00    54    18      9   226   (SW)    836  ptly cldy   none
     17:00    52    13      6   189    (S)    910  ptly cldy   none
     18:00    50    -2      9   182    (S)    352  ptly cldy   none
     19:00    50    12      7   181    (S)    547  ptly cldy   none
     20:00    50     4      5   181    (S)    264  ptly cldy   none
     21:00    49    17      9   159  (SSE)    732  ptly cldy   none
     22:00    47    17      5   108  (ESE)    657  ptly cldy   none
     23:00    48    11     10   175    (S)    488  ptly cldy   none
     00:00    48     6      9   179    (S)    331  ptly cldy   none
     01:00    47    10     14   159  (SSE)    472  ptly cldy   none
     02:00    47     7     12   171    (S)    340  ptly cldy   none
     03:00    46    10     12   145   (SE)    394  ptly cldy   none
     04:00    45    10     15   133   (SE)    374  ptly cldy   none
     05:00    44    14     15   154  (SSE)    421  ptly cldy   none
     06:00    43    16     12   159  (SSE)    529  ptly cldy   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: 2.11.1
      Current TUI version: TUI 1.6.2