Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20130124
From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:11:44 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Thursday, January 24, 2013
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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J.Bally           J.Bally               Tspec          --:--   --:--
J.Borish          J.Borish              TSpec          23:15   00:15
                                                       01:15   06:50
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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CU04/R     17:37   00:10    0   6.6   0    0   0.0   0    0    0
UV05/R     00:10   06:53    0   1.0   0    0   1.1  5.5   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
Clouds and some light rain at the start of the night.
Then clouds were continually forming just overhead (we could see a perpetual clearing to our west that never seemed to get any closer).
Skies cleared enough to safely open around 23:10 but this didn't leave enought time for the CU folks to really get anything useful (they needed a minimum 50 min block and I still needed to focus).  They gave their remaining time to the UV program.
                    ------- 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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 23:14 TSPEC   482(  228) 116  58   4.3  4.7  5.0  4.9  3.9   Ks  0.92
 23:15 NA2gdr   721(34721) 116  58   4.3  4.7  5.0  4.9  3.9   clear  1.07
 01:20 TSPEC   494(  192) 178  64   3.7  3.8  4.3  4.1  3.6   Ks  1.10
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    47    24      7   266    (W)    345  ptly cldy   none
     17:00    41    23     13   311   (NW)    405   cloudy   lt rain
     18:00    40    26     18   302  (WNW)    503   cloudy   lt rain
     19:00    41    25     17   303  (WNW)    379 mstly cldy   none
     20:00    40    25     14   278    (W)    593 mstly cldy   none
     21:00    40    25     11   272    (W)    650   cloudy     none
     22:00    40    26     12   279    (W)    508 mstly cldy   none
     23:00    40    24     14   297  (WNW)    451  ptly cldy   none
     00:00    40    24      4   261    (W)    506 mstly cldy   none
     01:00    39    28     11   276    (W)    406  ptly cldy   none
     02:00    39    32      5   345  (NNW)    159  ptly cldy   none
     03:00    41    32     14   357    (N)     76  ptly cldy   none
     04:00    40    32     14    20  (NNE)     48 mstly clr    none
     05:00    43    32     11   332  (NNW)     33 mstly clr    none
     06:00    42    32     18   325   (NW)     60 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: 2.0.0