Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:12:38 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20091227
From: jwhueh@apo.nmsu.edu
                       Apache Point Observatory
                       3.5m Telescope Night Log
                       Sunday, December 27, 2009
                                                       ACTUAL
ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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T. Yan          T. Yan, J.Stocke         NICFPS       17:15    22:45
T. Murphy       P. Russet                APOLLO       22:55    00:00
T. Yan          T. Yan                   NICFPS       00:02    06:10
  INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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CU05/R    17:14   23:00    0    0    0    0    0   5.8   0    0
DD01/R    23:00   00:00    0    0    0    0    0   1.0   0    0
CU05/R    00:00   06:56    0    0    0    0   3.1  3.9   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist:    J. Huehnerhoff
Clear, photometric skies with sub-arcsecond seeing for most of first half.
 Increasing clouds but still good seeing second half.
After APOLLO; rotating the tertiary back to the NA2 from BC1 caused a
pointing mis alignment.  na2tilit was used to correct this error.  The
change was -700 of the y coefficient.
                    ------- 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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 17:38 NICFPS   252(  396)   0  46  -3.4 -1.6 -3.0 -2.7 -2.7   MK-Ks  0.93
 18:43 NICFPS   100(  192) -22  44  -3.3 -2.7 -3.2 -3.9 -3.2   MK-Ks  1.04
 22:59 APOLLO    50(  272) 269  46  -2.9 -4.0 -3.2 -5.0 -3.8          1.70
 00:39 NICFPS    77(  110) 140  40  -3.8 -4.1 -4.0 -5.7 -4.3   Mk-J   1.09
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    27     1      2   331  (NNW)    200    clear     none
     17:00    27     0      8   309   (NW)    151    clear     none
     18:00    26     5      5   323   (NW)    164    clear     none
     19:00    27     1      9   343  (NNW)    180    clear     none
     20:00    26     1     10   347  (NNW)    154    clear     none
     21:00    27     0      5   343  (NNW)    172    clear     none
     22:00    26     0      2   346  (NNW)    180    clear     none
     23:00    27     0      5   259    (W)    147 mstly clr    none
     00:00    27    -1      4   248  (WSW)    151 mstly clr    none
     01:00    25    -1      5   195  (SSW)    121 mstly clr    none
     02:00    26    -1      2   129   (SE)    137  ptly cldy   none
     03:00    26    -1      8   185    (S)    134 mstly cldy   none
     04:00    26    -1      3   142   (SE)    163 mstly cldy   none
     05:00    26    -1     11   174    (S)    160  ptly cldy   none
     06:00    25    -1      9   142   (SE)    150 mstly 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: 1.6.2