Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:10:21 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110212
From: "Gabrelle Saurage"
                       Apache Point Observatory
                       3.5m Telescope Night Log
                       Saturday, February 12, 2011
                                                        ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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 T.Snow            J.Destree, +students  ECHELLE        18:10   23:01
 T.Murphy          R.McMillan            APOLLO         23:04   00:07
 D.York            D.York, S.Johnson     ECHELLE        00:14   06:15
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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 CU09/R     17:54   23:10    0    0    0   0.2  0.0  5.1   0    0
 DD02/R     23:10   00:10    0    0    0    0   0.0  1.0   0    0
 UC02/R     00:10   06:40    0    0    0    0   3.8  2.7   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist:    G.Saurage
Photometric night.
UT 01:15 After switching to echelle, three slew commands did not move the alt drive.
A re-init finally cleared it.
UT 03:24 guiding on ecam spontaneously stopped, giving this error:
 03:24:01 CU09.Snow.ecam 39490 ecamera f text="sendCmd timed out: timed out"
03:24:01 CU09.Snow 73 ecam f text="text=\"sendCmd timed out: timed out\""
Restarting hub would not work, slitty was not available via timbuktu, had to reboot
slitty. Lost 20 mins.
PR #1237, Echelle ThAr lamp failing or at least seems too dim.
                    ------- FAILURE LOG -------
PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
    (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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 CU09    E         I/S      08:24  08:44   ecam stopped guiding, lost communication
            ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt  FWHM
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 01:29 ECHELLE   312(-1203)  31  63   1.2  4.8  1.8  3.1  4.2     1.42
 06:20 APOLLO    150(  287) -96  39   3.2  2.2  2.8  2.1  2.6     1.30
 07:18 ECHELLE   105(-1465) -58  24   3.1  2.5  2.9  2.3  2.7     1.28
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:00    39     3      9   305   (NW)    342    clear     none
     17:00    40     4      8   287  (WNW)    296    clear     none
     18:00    35    -8     11   330  (NNW)    145    clear     none
     19:00    34    -9      7   346  (NNW)    157    clear     none
     20:00    34    -9      5   268    (W)    133    clear     none
     21:00    37    -6      7   334  (NNW)    120    clear     none
     22:00    37    -6      2    29  (NNE)    108    clear     none
     23:00    35    -7      0   249  (WSW)    111    clear     none
     00:00    37    -6     12   311   (NW)    110    clear     none
     01:00    38    -5     12   302  (WNW)    102    clear     none
     02:00    39    -4     12   297  (WNW)    138    clear     none
     03:00    39    -4     16   301  (WNW)    184    clear     none
     04:00    39    -4     15   315   (NW)    148    clear     none
     05:00    38    -4     12   317   (NW)    179    clear     none
     06:00    40    -4     14   323   (NW)    116    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: 2.14.0
    Current TUI version: 1.8.5