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Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20101104
Date: Fri,  5 Nov 2010 13:25:45 +0000 (UTC)
                       Apache Point Observatory
                       3.5m Telescope Night Log
                       Thursday, November 04, 2010
                                                        ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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J.Coughlin        J.Coughlin            DIS            18:35   19:45
J.Gauthier        J.Gauthier            DIS            19:47   00:58
D.York            D.York                ECH, DIS       01:02   06:45
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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NM06/R     18:18   19:48    0    0    0    0   1.5  0.0   0    0
UC03/R     19:48   01:00    0    0    0    0   5.2  0.0   0    0
UC02/R     01:00   07:16    0    0    0    0   6.3  0.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist:    R.McMillan
Clear all night.  As with previous nights, seeing started out fine
and then started to get worse around 10 pm.  But this time it stopped
getting worse and went back to nice moderate values.  Perhaps the
strange weather pattern is broken.
We had a few failures with the DIS slitviewer shutter, but not nearly
as many as the previous night.  Perhaps this was because I made more
effort to exercise the shutter in between uses, but more likely it
was because the temperature was about 4 C warmer tonight.
I snuck in another collimation check with Agile this morning to test
the quick-check method; this worked in less than five minutes in
medium twilight.
                    ------- 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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 18:49 dis-slit   130(  364) 208  72   3.0  5.8  4.0  4.6  4.5
 1.30
 20:26 dis-slit    72(  220) 325  83   3.5  4.1  3.9  3.4  3.8
 1.10
 01:07 ECHELLE    71( -755)  -8  77   5.4  3.6  4.3  3.3  4.0   ND1
 1.00
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky
     Conditions
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     16:00    48    30      7   224   (SW)    602    clear     none
     17:00    41    30      3   254  (WSW)    547    clear     none
     18:00    39    29      1   256  (WSW)    692    clear     none
     19:00    38    28      5     2    (N)    693    clear     none
     20:00    39    28      5     4    (N)    502    clear     none
     21:00    39    27      5    31  (NNE)    495    clear     none
     22:00    37    26      3   340  (NNW)    428    clear     none
     23:00    38    26      9   360    (N)    524    clear     none
     00:00    41    24      7    37   (NE)    268    clear     none
     01:00    41    23     10    53   (NE)    209    clear     none
     02:00    41    25     10    85    (E)    266    clear     none
     03:00    40    25      8    92    (E)    301    clear     none
     04:00    41    25      4   138   (SE)    272    clear     none
     05:00    41    25      8   142   (SE)    234    clear     none
     06:00    40    26      5   154  (SSE)    312    clear     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: 2.13.0
    Current TUI version: 1.8.4