Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:47:06 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120718
From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Wednesday, July 18, 2012
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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J.Wisniewski      J.Wisniewski          Echelle        20:30   01:08
K.Hamm            G.Kazlowski           DIS            01:18   02:25
M.Klaene          R.McMillan            NA2Gdr         03:00   05:30
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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DD05/R     20:19   01:10    0    0    0    0   4.9  0.0   0    0
UV07/R     01:10   02:55    0    0   0.5   0   1.3  0.0   0    0
EN01/O/D   02:55   06:00    0    0    0    0   3.0   0    0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: R.McMillan
Partly clear skies and good to moderate seeing all night.  There were lots
of nearby radar returns which I judged to be spurious from the Holloman
Nexrad station, but it did make me nervous.
At about 02:25 there was a trouble alarm from the fire system.  After I
spent a few minutes making sure there was no actual fire, I realized that
the observer had not said or done anything for a while.  Then I realized
that I couldn't reach any outside web pages, and our internet was down.
EDITED: I thought at the time that the phones were working, but it turned
out they were only working locally, and interstate phone lines were down.
Therefore the observer was unable to contact me or vice versa.  After
half an hour of waiting I used the time for a pointing model, and based
on this I listed it as EN01 time.
                    ------- FAILURE LOG -------
PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
    (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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UV07    D        T/U       02:25  02:55   Internet & phone down
            ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt  FWHM
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 19:47 ECHELLE   350( -558) 108  77  15.1 16.6 16.7 16.1 15.3   ND1  0.80
 22:16 ECHELLE   374( -624)  79  38  13.8 14.1 14.6 13.9 13.7   ND2  1.40
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    60    49      8    10    (N)   1309  ptly cldy   none
     17:00    63    47      5   116  (ESE)   2077  ptly cldy   none
     18:00    68    46      9   109  (ESE)   2226  ptly cldy   none
     19:00    62    46      6    92    (E)   2368  ptly cldy   none
     20:00    61    46      4    95    (E)   2036  ptly cldy   none
     21:00    59    46     11    89    (E)   2101  ptly cldy   none
     22:00    58    44     20    80    (E)   2048  ptly cldy   none
     23:00    57    46     12   135   (SE)   2290  ptly cldy   none
     00:00    56    46     11   141   (SE)   1799 mstly clr    none
     01:00    55    46     10   126   (SE)   1417 mstly clr    none
     02:00    54    48     14   122  (ESE)   1336 mstly clr    none
     03:00    55    44     20    87    (E)    951 mstly clr    none
     04:00    55    43      5    11    (N)    971 mstly clr    none
     05:00    54    43      5   168  (SSE)    864 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