Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:15:02 -0700 (MST)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20100218
From: "Jack Dembicky"
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                       Thursday February 18, 2010
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)             INSTRUMENT    START  FINISH
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 J.Rogers       J.Rogers                NICFPS        17:20   23:58
 J.Gauthier     J.Gauthier              DIS           00:10   06:55
  PROG        SCHEDULED      WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH    D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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 JH06/R     18:00  00:10     0    0    0    0   1.8  4.4   0    0
 UC01/R     00:10  06:34     0    0    0    0   6.4   0    0    0
   note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
 NICFPS icc needed to be rebooted, lost connection.  When I rebooted it the NICFPS temps did not
come back.  I rebooted the terminal server at instrument cahngeover and restarted the NICFPS icc
again.  Reconnecting NICFPS to the hub brought back the temps again.
 Guiding with DIS tonight was a bit finicky.  They were doing long (40s) slit exposures and the
star wanted to drift upward in the field over a period of several minutes.  Guiding seemed to be
working but making ObjectXY offsets (Relative) was a bit tricky as the long exposure and the
slight drift didn't help matters.   I increased the Rad mult and that helped some.
                ------------- 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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 18:27 NICFPS   384(  686)  52  40   1.4  4.7  3.1  3.8  3.4   J  1.00
 18:29 NA2gdr   446(43446)  51  40   1.4  4.5  3.0  3.6  3.2   clear  1.10
 00:17 dis-slit   275(  -91) -32  52   0.4  0.4  0.7  0.0  0.3   --  1.06
 00:18 NA2gdr  2314(24314) -33  52   0.6  0.4  0.8  0.0  0.3   R  1.00
                 ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    40    19     15   247  (WSW)   1054    clear     none
     17:00    39    20     19   261    (W)   1206    clear     none
     18:00    35    15     20   254  (WSW)   1124    clear     none
     19:00    34    17     20   244  (WSW)   1164    clear     none
     20:00    35    16     17   247  (WSW)   1087    clear     none
     21:00    35    18     17   260    (W)   1256    clear     none
     22:00    34    13     16   275    (W)   1064    clear     none
     23:00    34    14     22   285  (WNW)   1094    clear     none
     00:00    33    15     18   282  (WNW)   1097    clear     none
     01:00    33    15     24   293  (WNW)   1146    clear     none
     02:00    31    16     19   296  (WNW)   1150    clear     none
     03:00    31    16     19   291  (WNW)   1164    clear     none
     04:00    30    14     15   291  (WNW)   1184    clear     none
     05:00    30    13     17   300  (WNW)   1261    clear     none
     06:00    30    13     17   299  (WNW)   1305    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: 2.11.1
      Current TUI version: 1.7.0