Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20121223
From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:09:02 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Sunday, December 23, 2012
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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G.Stringfellow    G.Stringfellow        TSPEC, NICFPS  17:11   23:06
T.Murphy          R.McMillan            APOLLO         23:10   00:10
A.McKay           A.McKay               ECHELLE        00:10   02:50
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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DD05/R     17:11   23:10    0    0    0    0   0.0  6.0   0    0
UW12/R     23:10   00:10    0    0    0    0   0.0  1.0   0    0
NM02/R     00:10   06:55   3.1  1.0   0    0    0   2.7   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: A.Bradley until 22:00 then J.Dembicky after 22:00.
For some reason APOLLO focus and seeing did not get recorded.  Seeing was around 2.0 arc sec.
Clouds got fairly thick around 01:30 but we observed thru them (changing targets to backups) until around 02:50 when even Jupiter was getting hard to get spectra for.
We gave up around 05:00 with more clouds forming to our West and completely cloudy overhead.
                    ------- 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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 17:27 TSPEC   634(  395) 289  22   1.7  3.8  3.6  4.2  2.4   --  1.42
 21:49 NICFPS   349(  199) 249  74   2.7  1.0  1.3  0.8  1.6   Clear  1.30
 21:55 NICFPS   402(  253) 249  73   2.9  1.1  1.5  0.9  1.7   MK-J  1.09
 22:12 NA2gdr -3503(39497) 250  70   3.0  1.2  1.8  1.1  2.0   clear  1.3
 00:19 ECHELLE   466(-1232) 105  37   0.3  0.3  0.9  0.4  0.3   ND5  1.60
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    37    11      8   356    (N)     93    clear     none
     17:00    36     2     13    19  (NNE)     81    clear     none
     18:00    36     1      7     0    (N)     61    clear     none
     19:00    37     4      7   347  (NNW)     55    clear     none
     20:00    37     4      8   358    (N)     50    clear     none
     21:00    33    10      9   266    (W)    108    clear     none
     22:00    37     3      6   261    (W)     68 mstly clr    none
     23:00    33    17      8   182    (S)    148    clear     none
     00:00    34    14     14   200  (SSW)    139    clear     none
     01:00    34     8     14   264    (W)     92  ptly cldy   none
     02:00    34    15     12   264    (W)    103   cloudy     none
     03:00    32    18     14   235   (SW)    103   cloudy     none
     04:00    32    17     13   263    (W)    108   cloudy     none
     05:00    33    17     12   277    (W)    102   cloudy     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