Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 06:46:48 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20090905
From: "Jack Dembicky"
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                       Saturday September 05, 2009
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)             INSTRUMENT    START  FINISH
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 M.Klaene       J.Dembicky           SPIcam, Echelle  22:30  06:30
   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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 EN02/O     20:17  05:47    0   2.0   0    0    0   7.5   0    0    0
  note: scheduled times listed include instrument chanyes, some ge time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
 We had some clouds and lightning that kept us closed at the start of the night.  Once I opened of
course clouds moved back in for about an hour.
I pointed the telescope into the wind (20MPH gusts) and let it sit there for a few mins.  Alt axis
give, which is good.  During this test I ran into some servo and motor control buffer errors which
took a while to debug and clear.
I then repeated some of the tracking tests from last night (tonight we had a nice breeze out of
the east as well to watch for shake).
east
east_long (Az up, Alt right)
north
north_long (Az Right, Alt Down)
west
west_long (Az down, Alt left )
south_long(az left, alt up)
I did not do south (90 exp) since I did those last night.  I had a little time at the end of the
night so I just did south_long for Russet (as those only took 15mins)
Checked and fixed pointing on the echelle.  It was off a bit for some reason.
                ------------- FAILURE 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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 23:51 SPICAM   150(  543) 101  60  10.5 10.9 11.1 10.4 10.6   V  0.93
 01:54 SPICAM    53(  404) 172  59  10.5 10.1 10.5  9.4 10.1   V  0.64
                 ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     17:00    59    36      6    76  (ENE)   1083  ptly cldy   none
     18:00    58    36     12    66  (ENE)   1104  ptly cldy   none
     19:00    56    37     11    69  (ENE)   1175  ptly cldy   none
     20:00    54    40     15    80    (E)   1106 mstly cldy   none
     21:00    52    41     17    80    (E)   1213  ptly cldy   none
     22:00    52    41     18    77  (ENE)   1281 mstly cldy   none
     23:00    52    42     12    78  (ENE)   1431  ptly cldy   none
     00:00    51    42      9    79    (E)   1429 mstly clr    none
     01:00    50    42      5    16  (NNE)   1416 mstly clr    none
     02:00    51    40     10    72  (ENE)   1366 mstly clr    none
     03:00    52    37     12    80    (E)   1144 mstly clr    none
     04:00    52    34     11    75  (ENE)   1096 mstly clr    none
     05:00    51    34      8   131   (SE)   1038 mstly clr    none
     06:00    51    37      6   136   (SE)   1107 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: 2.10.0
      Current TUI version: TUI 1.6