Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 11:15:12 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20090509
From: "Gabrelle Saurage"
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                        Saturday, May 9th, 2009
                                                          ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT      START  FINISH
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 P.Frinchaboy   R.Hamilton             ECHELLE         20:10  02:00
   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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 DD04/R     20:50  05:09    0   3.0   0    0    0   5.3   0    0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: G.Saurage
AzVeloScale: no change
Dust somewhat high all evening. Seeing was very bouncy and at times over 3". Around
01:00 dust and humidity rose enough to be an issue in a similar weather pattern to
the previous night; humidity and dust with evidence of pollen with the strange smell
in the air.
Echelle slitviewer became unresponsive giving these errors in the log:
06:58:26 DD04.Ryan.ecam 5333 ecamera f text="sendCmd timed out: timed out"
06:58:26 .hub 0 cmds i CmdDone=629464
06:58:26 DD04.Ryan 138 ecam i camFile="None"
06:58:26 DD04.Ryan 138 ecam f text="\"sendCmd timed out: timed out\""
Restarting nubs would not clear it. Exposures continued to fail. It required a
power-cycle of the camera.
Tertiary left pointed at Apollo for daytime work.
                       ------- 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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 20:59 ECHELLE   -89(-370)  -26  70  15.7 16.7 16.3 15.6 15.6   nd3    0.77
 22:25 ECHELLE  -190(-489) -180  28  16.1 15.3 15.2 14.2 14.8   clear  1.84
                ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    69    35     13   230   (SW)   2314    clear     none
     17:00    69    33     11   213  (SSW)   2144    clear     none
     18:00    66    32     12   229   (SW)   2297    clear     none
     19:00    64    33     10   185    (S)   2292    clear     none
     20:00    60    33     14   186    (S)   2499    clear     none
     21:00    60    31     16   187    (S)   2700    clear     none
     22:00    61    27     12   188    (S)   2700    clear     none
     23:00    60    24     15   178    (S)   2259    clear     none
     00:00    60    25     14   186    (S)   2534    clear     none
     01:00    54    36     11   171    (S)   2835    clear     none
     02:00    50    41     18   170    (S)   3985    clear     dust
     03:00    54    38     21   174    (S)   3495    clear     dust
     04:00    54    41     20   196  (SSW)   3715    clear     dust
     05:00    53    40     14   201  (SSW)   3524    clear     dust
     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