Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120424
From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:49:39 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Tuesday, April 24, 2012
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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T.Murphy          R.McMillan            APOLLO         19:49   20:33
P.Yoachim         P.Yoachim             DIS            20:34   01:06
D.G.              K.Sokal               DIS            01:07   05:36
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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UW17/R     19:49   20:34    0    0    0    0   0.0  0.8   0    0
UW06/R     20:34   01:10    0    0    0    0   2.2  2.4   0    0
UV04/R     01:10   06:13    0    0    0    0   5.1  0.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: A.Shelden
Productive night with decent seeing.
Had a short outage in internet, due to maintenance at NMSU.  Had a series of exposures setup prior ot the outage, so no time was actually lost.
                    ------- 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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  18:37 APOLLO   450( 1419)  46  62  16.6 18.9 18.7 18.1 16.9   --  1.50
  20:40 dis-slit   475(  509) 250  79  15.0 14.4 15.0 14.4 14.3   --  1.30
 00:17 dis-slit   422(  460) 252  76  15.1 14.5 15.0 14.6 14.7   --  1.45
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    69    25      9   278    (W)   2111    clear     none
     17:00    68    26     18   265    (W)   2112    clear     none
     18:00    66    24     11   271    (W)   1757    clear     none
     19:00    66    23     10   248  (WSW)   1817    clear     none
     20:00    62    20     10   264    (W)   1637    clear     none
     21:00    60    20      8   260    (W)   1532    clear     none
     22:00    60    22      9   256  (WSW)   1354    clear     none
     23:00    60    20      8   263    (W)   1009    clear     none
     00:00    59    21      8   264    (W)    956    clear     none
     01:00    59    19     11   272    (W)    880    clear     none
     02:00    58    20     17   296  (WNW)    891    clear     none
     03:00    58    18     15   301  (WNW)    819    clear     none
     04:00    57    19      2   296  (WNW)    847    clear     none
     05:00    57    19     10   315   (NW)    872    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: 1.9.5