Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 06:30:22 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20090407
From: "Jack Dembicky"
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                         Tuesday, April 07, 2009
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)             INSTRUMENT    START  FINISH
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 B.Ketzeback    J.Dembicky              Echelle       19:00  20:51
 O.Fox          O.Fox, M.Skrutski       TSPEC         20:51  01:05
 M.Moe          M.Moe                   TSPEC         01:35  03:50
                                                      04:45  06:50
   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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 NM10/W     20:22  20:36    0    0    0    0    0   0.2   0    0    0
 UV02/R     20:36  01:05    0    0    0    0    0   4.5   0    0    0
 CU07/R     01:05  05:47    0   1.5   0    0    0   3.2   0    0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument chanyes, some ge time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
20:04MST what appeared to be a drive slip on Az on Dataq.  Nick wanted time noted
20:06MST drive slip again on Az
We had cirrus clouds at the start of the night which made getting a good exposure for e.Aurigae
difficult.  I started with 23s, bumped it to 40s, then 60s and was still only getting about 20K
counts.  I bumped it to 90s and started the sequence (first exp looked excellent with 30k cts)
then the clouds thinned and the object grew brighter and brighter.  Not sure if we got much useful
data since the sky was pretty varible and it ate up a lot of time adjusting exposures.  Didn't get
Tspec images since I ran out of program time.
06:15MST when shutting the telescope down, as it came to a halt at it's park position the Dataq
had some bad squiggles as it stopped.
                ------------- ACTIVITY 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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 20:09 ECHELLE  -206( -813) 239  52   7.6  9.8  8.6  8.8  7.8  ND3  0.98
 21:12 TSPEC     0(  316) 111  45   7.4  8.0  7.7  7.1  7.2   Ks  0.81
                 ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    56    16      9   276    (W)   1124   clear      none
     17:00    53    14     17   295  (WNW)   1057   cirrus     none
     18:00    51    13     13   297  (WNW)   1002   cirrus     none
     19:00    46    12     11   270    (W)   1151   cirrus     none
     20:00    45    13     13   243  (WSW)   1323   cirrus     none
     21:00    46    14     14   244  (WSW)   1519   Cirrus     none
     22:00    46    15     14   241  (WSW)   1449   cirrus     none
     00:00    46    15     10   262    (W)   1329   cirrus     none
     01:00    47    15     12   272    (W)   1211    cldy      none
     02:00    47    14     14   269    (W)   1136    cldy      none
     03:00    47    14     11   267    (W)   1175    cldy      none
     04:00    45    16     10   229   (SW)   1289    cldy      none
     05:00    46    15     15   266    (W)   1242   cirrus     none
     06:00    47    17     25   267    (W)    872   cirrus     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 1.5.1