Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20130523
From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 11:31:07 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Thursday, May 23, 2013
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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M.Skrutskie       M.Skrutskie, A.Oza    Echelle        23:00   00:04
M.Skrutskie       M.Skrutskie, A.Oza    Tspec          00:06   01:05
A.Brown           A.Brown               Echelle        01:07   05:20
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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UV04/R     20:10   01:10    0   2.8   0    0   0.0  2.2   0    0
CU07/R     01:10   05:50    0    0    0    0   0.3  4.4   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: A.Bradley
Night was mostly cloudy, with some high winds and high dust.  There were a few periods of partial clearness.  Seeing started out pretty bad, but improved later in the night.  Unfortunately not early enough for APOLLO, and Russet gave her time to the CU07 observer.
Made the Dis slitmasks this afternoon, and all looks fine.  Thanks for investigating guys!
The PMSS used up all of the disk space, and shut itself down until space is cleared.  I left the error message on the screen.
A few minutes before 05:00 local time, the CU observer lost his TUI connection.  Not sure what caused it, but he got it back in a few minutes.  ITtwasn't a terrible loss, he switched to cals as soon as he got back online.
                    ------- 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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 22:11 ECHELLE   228( -761) 230  45  11.4 14.5 14.9 14.4 11.2   Clear  2.31
 00:17 ECHELLE   545( -554) 130  56  12.7 12.6 13.1 12.7 12.4   Clear  1.09
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    80    32     20   215   (SW)   2397   cloudy     none
     17:00    73    30     21   264    (W)   2398   cloudy     none
     18:00    68    27     20   267    (W)   1778   cloudy     none
     19:00    68    27     16   269    (W)   1479   cloudy     none
     20:00    60    36     21   141   (SE)   2087   cloudy     none
     21:00    55    36     27   141   (SE)   3251   cloudy     none
     22:00    53    37     19   127   (SE)   3829 mstly cldy   none
     23:00    52    37     19   137   (SE)   2122  ptly cldy   none
     00:00    55    36     18   157  (SSE)   2425  ptly cldy   none
     01:00    55    35     19   172    (S)   2355 mstly clr    none
     02:00    53    36     19   138   (SE)   2461   cloudy     none
     03:00    52    35     16   155  (SSE)   3395   cloudy     none
     04:00    52    33     15   168  (SSE)   5440   cloudy     dust
     05:00    52    36     14   180    (S)   3212  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