Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120301
From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Fri,  2 Mar 2012 13:38:52 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Thursday, March 01, 2012
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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M.Pierce          M.Pierce              NIIS           --:--   --:--
M.Klaene          A.Shelden, R.McMillan                00:14   06:10
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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EN02/R     18:09   00:10    0   6.0   0   0.0  0.0  0.0   0    0
EN01/R     00:10   06:21    0    0    0    0   4.2  2.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: A.Shelden, R.McMillan
First half of the night had high dust and high winds.  Ran press fans for most of the night.
Niis is down for the count.  While I remained closed for weather, I let them work on getting it up and running.  The remainder of the night was used for engineering.
Started dome stuff 19:30, opened at 00:14
Checked Dis focus, checked collimation with Agile, had problems with Shack-Hartmann virtual computer, took some Dis throughput measurements, potentially found a solution to the ecam mask problem, and took/applied a new pointing model.  Seeing was variable and a bit bad.
                    ------- 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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 02:32 ECHELLE   506(-1301)  61  59  -1.4 -1.2 -0.7 -1.3 -1.6   ND1  1.28
 02:41 SHACK   350(  136)  56  61  -1.6 -1.4 -0.8 -1.4 -1.7   --  1.50
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    43     7     31   259    (W)   6859    clear     dust
     17:00    40     4     40   255  (WSW)   5857    clear     dust
     18:00    37     3     29   251  (WSW)  11460    clear     dust
     19:00    36     3     30   262    (W)   2888    clear     dust
     20:00    34     5     32   254  (WSW)   3405    clear     dust
     21:00    34     3     22   263    (W)   3092    clear     dust
     22:00    33     2     29   273    (W)  12547    clear     dust
     23:00    32     1     26   276    (W)  10716    clear     dust
     00:00    32     0     23   276    (W)   4321    clear     none
     01:00    31     0     18   265    (W)   2044    clear     none
     02:00    31     0     20   264    (W)   1315    clear     none
     03:00    29     1     15   259    (W)   1351    clear     none
     04:00    29     1     14   220   (SW)   3529    clear     none
     05:00    28     3     18   209  (SSW)   1416    clear     none
     06:00    27     5     15   234   (SW)   2843    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: 1.9.4