Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 11:40:46 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20100520
From: "Gabrelle Saurage"
                       Apache Point Observatory
                       3.5m Telescope Night Log
                        Thursday, May 20, 2010
                                                          ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER        OBSERVER(S)       INSTRUMENT        START  FINISH
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 T.Yan             T.Yan             TSPEC             20:02  00:56
 E.Hilton          E.Hilton          Agile             00:59  05:26
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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 CU05/R     20:08  01:10    0    0    0    0    0   5.0   0   0
 UW02/R     01:10  05:52    0    0    0    0   4.1  0.6   0   0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
 Observing Specialist: G.Saurage
Photometric.
Az Motion Errors:
 UT    Az
03:19  134
While sitting on long sequences Agile would spontaneously abort the sequence (this
occurred 9 times). The sequence would stop and the Expose window would say aborted,
but these "aborts" did not require a restart of the nubs as normal. A sequence could
immediately be started. So something different is happening here. Also curiously he
reported getting a sound cue, but I did not. The error would be in red in the log,
but no sound. Just before the error the log reported:
09:25:31 UW02.Eric.agileExpose 22 agile w Text='Image available too early;
pred-avail= 0.25 seconds; check external sync circuit'
Earlier tonight Agile would not connect because the lampswitch-inst server was
unavailable. Jon B got it back up and I restarted the Agile ICC... don't know if
that's related. See PR#1128 for more details.
SPICAM temps:
18:00 174.3
05:45 170.7
                    ------- FAILURE LOG -------
 PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
     (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
             ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
 Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt  FWHM
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 20:40 TSPEC    92(  793)   58  35  13.3 15.5 14.1 13.8 14.1      1.83
 21:14 TSPEC   118(  735) -135  70  13.6 14.7 13.9 13.2 13.5      0.86
 01:10 AGILE    -7(-1829)   20  47  13.2 12.4 12.7 11.2 12.4   B  0.99
             ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:00    60    17     12   276    (W)    868    clear     none
     17:00    64    17     11   296  (WNW)    880    clear     none
     18:00    62    15     11   258  (WSW)    899    clear     none
     19:00    61    14      7   238  (WSW)    880    clear     none
     20:00    57    16      7   221   (SW)   1006    clear     none
     21:00    57    17     10   232   (SW)   1219    clear     none
     22:00    56    15     10   216   (SW)    944    clear     none
     23:00    56    15     12   235   (SW)    767    clear     none
     00:00    56    16      7   253  (WSW)    716    clear     none
     01:00    57    15      7   260    (W)    702    clear     none
     02:00    57    16      8   273    (W)    750    clear     none
     03:00    56    16     10   242  (WSW)    674    clear     none
     04:00    55    15      9   238  (WSW)    642    clear     none
     05:00    55    17     11   232   (SW)    681    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: 1.7.1