Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20121119
From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:42:29 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Monday, November 19, 2012
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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D.Bizyaev         D.Bizyaev             SPICAM         17:08   00:13
A.Verbiscer       A.Verbiscer           SPICam         00:13   06:30
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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NM06/R     17:08   00:10    0    0    0   1.7  0.8  4.6   0    0
UV03/R     00:10   06:30    0    0    0    0   6.3  0.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: A.Bradley
Night was mostly clear with decent seeing.  Had multiple problems, though ironically none with the spicam instrument...
The hub crashed sometime during a 20 minute exposure that was started at 19:47, and we discovered the problem at 20:05.  We called Fritz, here is his blurb on it: "There was a long running test program on the hub computer, and it had a memory leak and used most of the memory.  I killed the program, and the hub failed."  We lost about and hour to this problem, plus the 20 minutes for the lost exposure.  When we got hub back, the gcam nub refused to connect, and so I called Fritz again.  We were running short science exposures that did not need the guider, so I didn't count this as lost time.  Got fully up and running again at 21:30.
At the beginning of second half we had a problem with pre-existing files in the Q4UV03/UT121120 folder.  It would not let Anne take her images at all.  I deleted them, and it was ok. Sorry to anyone who needed them (Anne said she didn't), I did try to save them in a new folder before deleting but it didn't work.
                    ------- FAILURE LOG -------
PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
    (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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NM06     S        T/S      19:47  21:30   hub crashed and lost 20 min exp.
            ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt  FWHM
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 19:11 SPICAM   137( -108)  60  39   2.9  5.4  5.2  5.5  3.3   MSSS0 V  2.12
 22:52 SPICAM   381(   12) -16  57   4.0  3.4  3.8  3.6  3.7   MSSSO I  1.31
 01:22 SPICAM   378(  -25) -31  75   5.4  2.9  3.6  2.8  3.8   MSSSO R  1.18
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    40    27      3   289  (WNW)    113 mstly clr    none
     17:00    37    27      6    14  (NNE)     96 mstly clr    none
     18:00    34    19      8    22  (NNE)    132    clear     none
     19:00    38     6      8     7    (N)     97    clear     none
     20:00    39     7     13    15  (NNE)     86    clear     none
     21:00    41    -1     22    23  (NNE)     54    clear     none
     22:00    39    -1     13    36   (NE)     71    clear     none
     23:00    38     3     15    27  (NNE)    113    clear     none
     00:00    40    -1      5    82    (E)     62    clear     none
     01:00    41    -1      6   112  (ESE)     56    clear     none
     02:00    42     0      4   195  (SSW)     53    clear     none
     03:00    42     0      3   198  (SSW)     41    clear     none
     04:00    42     0      3   199  (SSW)     44  ptly cldy   none
     05:00    42     0      3   116  (ESE)     37  ptly cldy   none
     06:00    42     0      9   148  (SSE)     27  ptly cldy   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: 1.9.5