Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:30:43 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20120810
From: "Gabrelle Saurage"
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Friday, August 10, 2012
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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J.Hughes          J.Hughes              SPIcam         20:10   01:07
M.Gralla          M.Hilton              NICFPS         01:15   05:13
T.Murphy          R.McMillan            APOLLO         05:17   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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UW11/R     20:02   01:10    0    0    0    0   4.9  0.2   0    0
JH02/R     01:10   05:16    0    0    0    0   0.0  4.1   0    0
UW13/R     05:16   06:16    0    0    0    0   0.0  1.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: G.Saurage
Clear skies, decent seeing. Productive return to science. Good night for APOLLO.
NICFPS hung twice during final calibration darks at rot=0; expose init fixed it.
Everything else was well behaved.
                    ------- 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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 19:59 SPICAM   320(  769) 178  80  17.2 19.6 19.1 19.3 17.5   MSSSO R  1.71
 00:22 NICFPS   293(  920)  28  55  16.1 16.0 16.4 16.1 16.0   MK-Ks    0.81
 04:21 APOLLO   465( 1208)  79  47  14.2 14.2 14.7 14.2 14.1            1.30
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    73    32      4   174    (S)    465    clear     none
     17:00    70    34     17   122  (ESE)    639    clear     none
     18:00    70    33      9   113  (ESE)    586    clear     none
     19:00    68    34     14   134   (SE)    654    clear     none
     20:00    65    37     14   111  (ESE)    977    clear     none
     21:00    63    38     16   115  (ESE)   1215    clear     none
     22:00    63    38     14   118  (ESE)   1076    clear     none
     23:00    62    38     20   132   (SE)   1088    clear     none
     00:00    62    38     21   127   (SE)   1125    clear     none
     01:00    61    39     19   135   (SE)   1072    clear     none
     02:00    60    41     20   148  (SSE)   1322    clear     none
     03:00    60    42     19   138   (SE)   1362    clear     none
     04:00    59    42     22   138   (SE)   1362    clear     none
     05:00    58    42     19   135   (SE)   1341    clear     none
     06:00    58    43     17   144   (SE)   1283    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