Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 06:08:37 -0600
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20090603
From: Jeff Coughlin
                     Apache Point Observatory
                     3.5m Telescope Night Log
                     Thursday, June 4, 2009
                                                        ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)              INSTRUMENT  START  FINISH
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 N.Zakamska     M.Reyes                  TSPEC     20:30  00:30
 P.Whittle      G.Sivakoff               TSPEC     --:--  --:--
  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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 PU08/R     21:11  01:05    0   0.6   0    0    0   3.3   0    0    0
 UV08/R     01:05  04:52   0.7  3.1   0    0    0    0    0    0    0
 note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
               ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: J. Coughlin
 The weather started out clear with us sitting in a hole in the
 satelliete images, but the hole rapidly closed and conditions became
 very cloudy around 23:00. I closed at 00:30 with the clouds being
 totally overcast and posibly causing rain. I re-opened at 03:30 when
 the clouds began to break apart and a few holes opened. However, the
 holes were not big enough for the second half observer on tspec, and he
 did not get any useable data.
 Both observers were very gracious to hand over the telescope for Agile
 TR2 testing while it was too cloudy to get any data with Triplespec. I
 was able to get Agile to focus nicely right around a secondary focus of
 -1350um while the instrument was set to 'agile1', getting a best fwhm
 of 1.65", which is what I expected seeing to be given I was shooting
 through the clouds. 2d profile looked nice and round. Bill logged on
 and took some dome flat data as well. Pointing as well on Agile TR2 was
 accurate to about 1', with stars sitting just on the left edge of the
 field upon first slewing to them.
 Also the tertiary handled beautifully with about 5 switches between NA2
 and TR2.
                      ------- 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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 20:33 TSPEC   330( 1203)  -3  59  16.1 19.6 17.2 18.3 17.1     1.60
 03:48 TSPEC    50(  676)  55  41  14.7 14.2 14.8 13.9 14.4     1.80
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                  Wind                      Precip.or
    Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    67    25     11   262    (W)   1000 mstly clr    none
     17:00    71    30     16   232   (SW)   1131 mstly clr    none
     18:00    70    28      8   263    (W)   1207 mstly clr    none
     19:00    66    28      7   286  (WNW)   1315 mstly clr    none
     20:00    64    28      2   242  (WSW)   1310    clear     none
     21:00    62    27      8   197  (SSW)   1336    clear     none
     22:00    62    26     11   182    (S)   1458 mstly clr    none
     23:00    59    31     16   139   (SE)   1174 mstly cldy   none
     00:00    57    37     24   137   (SE)   1404 mstly cldy   none
     01:00    56    40     29   135   (SE)   1461   cloudy     none
     02:00    57    39     19   135   (SE)   1331  ptly cldy   none
     03:00    59    34     24   173    (S)   1392  ptly cldy   none
     04:00    58    34     14   181    (S)   1532 mstly cldy   none
     05:00    57    35     21   204  (SSW)   1686 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: 2.10.0
     Current TUI version: TUI 1.5.1