Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120326
From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:02:50 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Monday, March 26, 2012
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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C.Wu              C.Wu                  DIS            19:28   01:06
P.Szkody          A.Mukadam             Agile          01:09   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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NM04/R     19:28   01:10    0    0    0    0   1.8  3.9   0    0
UW08/R     01:10   06:49    0    0    0    0   5.6  0.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: A.Shelden
Night was very productive with excellent seeing.  At one point Agile was reading 0.49, although I'm not sure if I can believe that since the guider was saying 1.4.
Dusty for most of the night, although we got by with the press fans on door/louvers closed etc.
I did not encounter the tracking issues that were described previously.
                    ------- 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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 18:48 dis-slit   330(  236) 141  52   9.3 11.6 11.7 10.8  9.3   --  1.36
 20:09 NA2gdr  5565(27565) 151  62   8.9  9.3  9.5  8.6  8.2   Clear  0.86
 00:31 AGILE -1150(-1901) -76  36   7.5  7.1  7.6  7.2  7.4   BG40  1.03
 01:08 AGILE -1100(-1833) -82  29   7.5  7.2  7.6  7.3  7.4   BG40  0.50
 04:00 AGILE -1100(-1898) -96  46   7.1  6.5  7.0  6.5  6.6   BG40  1.08
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    54    11     18   240  (WSW)    477    clear     none
     17:00    55    11     22   240  (WSW)    493    clear     none
     18:00    54    11     13   240  (WSW)    804    clear     none
     19:00    51     9     14   259    (W)   1943    clear     none
     20:00    49     6     10   257  (WSW)   2847    clear     none
     21:00    48     7     14   259    (W)   2791    clear     none
     22:00    47     9     12   263    (W)   3633    clear     dust
     23:00    45    10     11   262    (W)   4539    clear     dust
     00:00    46     8     18   281    (W)   3530    clear     dust
     01:00    45    10     16   295  (WNW)   3281    clear     dust
     02:00    46     9     17   311   (NW)   3320    clear     dust
     03:00    45     9     12   293  (WNW)   3559    clear     dust
     04:00    45     9     15   313   (NW)   3923    clear     dust
     05:00    45     9      8   333  (NNW)   3774    clear     dust
     06:00    44    10      8   312   (NW)   3691    clear     dust
     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