Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120502
From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Thu,  3 May 2012 12:29:26 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Wednesday, May 02, 2012
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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M.Klaene        J.Dembicky, J.Huehnerhoff X            19:55   06:05
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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EN01/O     19:55   06:05    0    0    0    0   1.8  8.3   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
Rotator Zero'ed, changed by +0.235 degrees from 4/14, TSPEC mounted for Joe's tests later and to reduce stray light for the pointing model
Russet ran a quick APOLLO test before sunset.
Joe was on site to do his TSPEC slit tests.
Took data with SH, didn't want to reduce. Russet will further explore why tomorrow.  It looked similiar to what she got in Dec 11.
Checked collimation with Agile, and it looked great.
I started a pointing model but had to stop it 38 stars in due to the increasing clouds.  I had already lost several points in the model due to them.
At 04:30 the clouds started to clear and I did the biggrid.dat model. I ran out of time, with only 77 points taken, due to a miscommunication.
                    ------- 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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 19:04 TSPEC   389(  594)  24  60  12.1 13.6 13.7 13.2 12.1   Ks  1.10
 20:09 GUIDER   697(  796) -129  45  11.9 12.2 12.7 12.0 11.6   R+ND2  0.89
 20:49 SHACK   272(  723)  94  57  11.6 11.6 12.1 11.6 11.1   --  1.00
 22:24 GUIDER   747(  737)  87  65  10.5 10.6 11.1 10.5 10.2   R+ND2  1.00
 03:31 GUIDER   759(  670)  62  46   8.5  8.6  9.2  8.7  8.4   R+ND2  0.95
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    61    18     20   264    (W)   1623    clear     none
     17:00    59    16     17   268    (W)   1263    clear     none
     18:00    60    17     16   244  (WSW)   1487    clear     none
     19:00    57    14     17   258  (WSW)   1725    clear     none
     20:00    54    11     23   253  (WSW)   1856    clear     none
     21:00    54    11     22   245  (WSW)   1778 mstly clr    none
     22:00    52    11     17   276    (W)   1297  ptly cldy   none
     23:00    51    11     22   264    (W)   1395 mstly cldy   none
     00:00    51    10     15   260    (W)   1416   cloudy     none
     01:00    50    10     18   265    (W)   1600   cloudy     none
     02:00    50     8     16   270    (W)   1471   cloudy     none
     03:00    49    10     17   269    (W)   1479   cloudy     none
     04:00    49    11     21   294  (WNW)   1433  ptly cldy   none
     05:00    47    11     15   274    (W)   1431 mstly clr    none
     06:00    47    11     12   270    (W)   1387 mstly clr    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