Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120305
From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Tue,  6 Mar 2012 13:07:23 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Monday, March 05, 2012
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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M.Pearce          M.Pearce, A.Monson    NIIS           21:40   22:40
                                                       00:00   05:45
   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/O     18:13   06:16   0.0  4.8   0   0.0  1.2  6.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
EN01 time was given to EN02 for their on-sky engineering work tonight.
Mostly cloudy skies for most of the night with the occasional patches of less cloudy skies.  We did open around 21:00 to cool and tried getting some stars on the instrument around 21:40 with not much luck (clouds & possible instrument issues (actually focus was off quite a bit)).  Clouds stopped us an hour later.  We re-opened around midnight and stayed open the remainder of the night with clouds coming and going.
Best instrument focus was at 4300
We finally got an instrument block at the very end of the night.
                    ------- 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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               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    48     6     10   238  (WSW)   2609 mstly cldy   none
     17:00    46     5     13   217   (SW)   2342 mstly cldy   none
     18:00    43     4      9   210  (SSW)   1995 mstly cldy   none
     19:00    43     4      8   184    (S)   1994 mstly cldy   none
     20:00    44     4      9   192  (SSW)   2543 mstly cldy   none
     21:00    43     4     10   199  (SSW)   2019 mstly cldy   none
     22:00    42     4     11   219   (SW)   2263 mstly cldy   none
     23:00    44     3     11   236   (SW)   1714 mstly cldy   none
     00:00    45     3     11   265    (W)    989  ptly cldy   none
     01:00    45     4     15   259    (W)   1222  ptly cldy   none
     02:00    43     5     13   244  (WSW)   1238  ptly cldy   none
     03:00    42     2     14   211  (SSW)   1305 mstly cldy   none
     04:00    43     1     15   198  (SSW)   1088 mstly cldy   none
     05:00    43     2     13   217   (SW)   1266 mstly cldy   none
     06:00    43     4     10   234   (SW)   1259 mstly 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: 1.9.4