Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:04:07 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20100316
From: "Jack Dembicky"
                        Apache Point Observatory
                        3.5m Telescope Night Log
                         Tuesday March 16, 2010
                                                         ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)             INSTRUMENT    START  FINISH
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 C.Wu           C.Wu                    DIS           19:00  01:05
 E.Hilton       E.Hilton                Agile         00:10  06:50
  PROG        SCHEDULED      WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH    D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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 NM03/R     19:20  01:10     0    0    0    0   4.8  1.0   0    0
 UW04/R     01:10  07:04     0    0    0    0   5.9   0    0    0
   note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
 The transverse load cell was a bit unhappy tonight.
agile/afocus.0201.fits was the start of a agile focus sweep (-700 from nominal to +700 nominal)
steps of 100 um
afocus0246-0254 were -700, nominal, +700 focus with a brighter star.
No problems tonight.
                ------------- FAILURE LOG --------------
  PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
      (STEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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                                             applied.
               ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
 Time  Instrument  Focus    Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt FWHM
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 19:46 dis-slit   371(  164)  27  54   0.9  3.6  2.0  2.7  2.2   --  1.15
 19:49 NA2gdr  2860(24860)  26  54   0.9  3.5  2.0  2.5  2.2   R  0.96
 22:10 dis-slit    77( -292)  31  55   0.4  0.5  0.2 -0.9 -0.1   --  1.35
 22:12 NA2gdr -1279(20720)  30  55   0.6  0.5  0.2 -0.9 -0.1   R  1.30
 01:18 NA2gdr -1279(20720) -30  61  -0.1 -0.8 -0.4 -1.6 -0.7   B  1.00
                 ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    37    24      6   250  (WSW)    584    clear     none
     17:00    38    23      7   232   (SW)    623    clear     none
     18:00    38    24      2   283  (WNW)    626    clear     none
     19:00    34    22      1   250  (WSW)    713    clear     none
     20:00    34    21     10    61  (ENE)    894    clear     none
     21:00    34    16     13    29  (NNE)   1318    clear     none
     22:00    32    17      6     5    (N)   1003    clear     none
     23:00    32    17      6   354    (N)    888    clear     none
     00:00    29    17      3   317   (NW)   1033    clear     none
     01:00    31    16      3    75  (ENE)    899    clear     none
     02:00    32     9     14    30  (NNE)    856    clear     none
     03:00    34    11     19    22  (NNE)    888 mstly clr    none
     04:00    34     9     12    32  (NNE)    816 mstly clr    none
     05:00    35    11      9    20  (NNE)    819 mstly clr    none
     06:00    33    10     11   357    (N)    971 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: 2.11.1
      Current TUI version: 1.7.1