Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:37:38 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20091210
From: "Gabrelle Saurage"
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                        Thursday, December 10, 2009
                                                            ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT       START  FINISH
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 J.Hughes        J.Hughes               SPICAM           18:10  23:55
 P.Kundurthy     P.Kundurthy            Agile            00:00  06:45
   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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 UW07/R     17:06  00:00   1.0   0   2.5   0   3.4   0    0    0    0
 UW01/R     00:00  06:47    0    0    0    0   2.3  4.5   0    0    0
 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: G.Saurage
Utility power came back around 17:30 as we were bring up the critical systems for
the night. Many systems still powered down in case power is still not reliable.
SPICAM and Agile came up relatively easily. We struggled with bringing back gcam and
TSPEC. TSPEC is not on but reconnecting the hub started the monitor alarms. The
TSPEC ICC is powered on but the software has not been stated or connected to TUI.
At 19:50 we closed due to thick clouds. During that time I investigated the few
images we manged to get before clouds shut us out. The stars in the NA2 guider and
SPIcam images were all streaked in the Az direction. The telescope believed it was
tracking properly; I was seeing no warnings or errors. We also power cycled the GPS
antenna during this time. While closed I reset both axis controllers and re-inited
everything. When skies did clear enough to open and I got on sky the streaking was
solved.
Rest of the night everything went smoothly.
Note: the alt axis limit seems to still be set at 87.
                      ------- 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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                ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    36     9     12   270    (W)    278  ptly cldy   none
     17:00    33     0     15   252  (WSW)    345  ptly cldy   none
     18:00    31     4     16   266    (W)    601  ptly cldy   none
     19:00    31    10     11   253  (WSW)    715 mstly cldy   none
     20:00    31     8     13   280    (W)    687   cloudy     none
     21:00    31    11     12   276    (W)    753 mstly clr    none
     22:00    31    11     16   275    (W)    705 mstly clr    none
     23:00    32    13     10   286  (WNW)    782 mstly clr    none
     00:00    31    16      8   271    (W)    890 mstly clr    none
     01:00    31    19     14   268    (W)   1070 mstly clr    none
     02:00    31    22     16   268    (W)   1074 mstly clr    none
     03:00    30    22     18   273    (W)    961 mstly clr    none
     04:00    30    22     19   280    (W)   1137 mstly clr    none
     05:00    30    19     16   267    (W)   1043 mstly clr    none
     06:00    30    17     10   267    (W)   1158 mstly clr    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