Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20111116
From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:42:04 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Wednesday, November 16, 2011
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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D.Syphers         D.Syphers             TripleSpec     17:40   23:50
S.Majewski    S.Majewski Jake Borish,   TSPEC          23:50   05:15
              John Allan, Cheoljong Lee,
              Loreto Barcos, Guillermo Damke,
              Ben Breslauer, Arron Kingery
T.Murphy          R.McMillan            APOLLO         05:15   06:23
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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CU08/R     17:10   00:00    0    0    0    0   5.0  1.8   0    0
UV01/O     00:00   05:26    0    0    0    0   0.0  5.4   0    0
DD01/O     05:26   06:26    0    0    0    0   0.0  1.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
Rotator zero'ed this afternoon by day staff.  I did have one fault with it during checkout test slews but that may have been my fault.
UVa students training tonight:
John Allan, Cheoljong Lee, Loreto Barcos, Guillermo Damke, Jake Borish , Ben Breslauer, Arron Kingery,
Very succesful APOLLO night.  Lots of returned photons tonight!!!
                    ------- 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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 18:22 TSPEC   675(  443) 111  60   3.3  5.2  4.2  5.2  3.6   Ks  0.63
 00:50 TSPEC   444(   43) -48  52   2.4  1.7  2.2  1.9  1.9   Ks  1.20
 06:21 APOLLO   469(  469) -10  70   1.1  0.0  0.5  0.1  0.4   --  1.20
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    39    17     12   353    (N)    464    clear     none
     17:00    37    18     12    51   (NE)    537    clear     none
     18:00    37    22     12   120  (ESE)    485    clear     none
     19:00    34    20     13   109  (ESE)    771    clear     none
     20:00    34    20     10   112  (ESE)    840    clear     none
     21:00    36    20     16   134   (SE)    761    clear     none
     22:00    36    21     14   168  (SSE)    645    clear     none
     23:00    37    20     12   181    (S)    569    clear     none
     00:00    36    19     12   179    (S)    509    clear     none
     01:00    34    20     11   127   (SE)    652    clear     none
     02:00    34    19     10   175    (S)    568    clear     none
     03:00    33    19     11   172    (S)    641    clear     none
     04:00    33    19     13   191    (S)    737    clear     none
     05:00    34    20     11   183    (S)    812    clear     none
     06:00    34    21     12   185    (S)    831    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: 2.15.0
    Current TUI version: 1.9.3