Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:57:16 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20131226
From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Thursday, December 26, 2013
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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L.Straka          L.Straka,J.Bubeck     GIFS           18:30   22:30
L.Straka          L.Straka              DIS            22:30   04:50
M.de Val-Borro    M.de Val-Borro        DIS            04:52   06:40
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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UC02/R     17:13   00:10    0    0   1.0   0   6.0  0.0   0    0
UC02/R     00:10   04:56    0    0    0    0   1.6  3.2   0    0
PU03/R     04:56   06:56    0    0    0    0   0.0  2.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: R.McMillan
Another night of clear weather and variable seeing.  After recording
initial focus of GIFS and guider, I accidentally left the recording script
set to guider, so the later measurements are incomplete, but I included
them anyway as a log of seeing.
At the start of the night, GIFS had a problem controlling filters and one
of the instrument team had to be called for help.  It turned out to be
poor error-handling of a typo in one of the filter names.  Tracing it down
cost about an hour.  After that, everything worked very well.
                    ------- FAILURE LOG -------
PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
    (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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UC02    G        I/S      17:13   18:10  GIFS ignoring filter commands
            ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt  FWHM
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 18:44 GIFS       463(  375)  -2  57   1.4  2.0  1.5  2.4  0.9   4865  0.71
 18:48 NA2gdr -2758(27241)  -3  57   1.1  2.0  1.4  2.3  0.9   Clear  0.81
 23:25 dcamera              127  65  -1.9 -2.0 -1.7 -2.0 -2.0   -  1.40
 02:10 dcamera             -129  79  -3.0 -3.0 -2.6 -3.1 -3.1   -  1.30
 04:58 dcamera              -63  46  -1.6 -2.8 -2.2 -2.7 -2.0   -  1.95
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    38     8      1    93    (E)    405    clear     none
     17:00    34    13      2   199  (SSW)    405    clear     none
     18:00    32    12      2   159  (SSE)    405    clear     none
     19:00    32     6      2    49   (NE)    405    clear     none
     20:00    30     9      3     5    (N)    405    clear     none
     21:00    32     6      1     0    (N)    405    clear     none
     22:00    29     7      9    53   (NE)    405    clear     none
     23:00    29     8     12    35   (NE)    405    clear     none
     00:00    29     7      1   341  (NNW)    405    clear     none
     01:00    28     7      6    86    (E)    405    clear     none
     02:00    27     8     15    80    (E)    405    clear     none
     03:00    27     7     16    78  (ENE)    405    clear     none
     04:00    29     4      8   109  (ESE)    405    clear     none
     05:00    29    -1      3   106  (ESE)    405    clear     none
     06:00    28     2      8    87    (E)    405    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: 2.1.0