Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:35:09 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20110730
From: "Gabrelle Saurage"
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Saturday, July 30, 2011
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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A.McKay           A.McKay               ECHELLE        00:00   01:40
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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NM01/R     20:12   01:10  10.0   0    0    0   1.7  0.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: G.Saurage
A little rain in the afternoon/evening; clouds and radar returns first half, didn't
open till midnight, then increasing clouds and humidity closed us again at 1:40.
Humidity set in around 4 am.
When we did open we had the same problem with the echelle slitviewer as was reported
last night, only repeat exposures would not clear it. Every other exposure would
fail with following error:
06:04:49 NM01.Adam.ecam 7 ecamera f text="unexpected command echo: doread 1.00 1 1
256.00 256.00 512.00 512.00"
06:04:49 NM01.Adam 28 ecam f text="\"unexpected command echo: doread 1.00 1 1 256.00
256.00 512.00 512.00\""
Problem sumbitted as PR #1274. Restarting the program on the slitviewer computer
cleared it up.
                    ------- 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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 00:19 ECHELLE   369( -585) -16  64  14.6 15.6 15.5 15.1 14.4   ND2  1.36
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:00    62    47      8    86    (E)    863 mstly cldy   none
     17:00    61    47      7   106  (ESE)    796 mstly cldy   none
     18:00    62    48     14    92    (E)    846 mstly cldy   none
     19:00    62    47     11   102  (ESE)    826 mstly cldy   none
     20:00    61    46      9    95    (E)    875 mstly cldy   none
     21:00    61    46     15   110  (ESE)   1482 mstly cldy   none
     22:00    59    51     12    85    (E)   2247 mstly cldy   none
     23:00    58    51     19    80    (E)   1776 mstly clr    none
     00:00    58    49     16    89    (E)   1071 mstly clr    none
     01:00    57    50     15    89    (E)    933 mstly clr    none
     02:00    57    52     15    89    (E)   1102   cloudy     none
     03:00    58    51     15    85    (E)    831   cloudy     none
     04:00    56    53     10    67  (ENE)   1166   cloudy    humid
     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: 1.8.7