Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20130524
From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 11:35:52 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Friday, May 24, 2013
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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T.Heckman         L.Martins             TSPEC          23:43   05:21
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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JH03/R     20:10   05:50    0   3.5   0   0.9  0.0  4.6   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: A.Bradley
The beginning of the night was lost to heavy clouds and nearby threatening storms.  When it was reasonably safe, we opened at 23:43.
After focusing and attempting to set up Lucimara's nod script, the numbers I was typing in the log window somehow typed into the tcam exposure time window as well.  I did not see the 2495 (instead of 2) until I hit expose, and it gave the "I can't do this command" noise.  I then fixed the numbers and sent a 2 second exposure.  It took the exposure, and then froze at the end of readout.  Russet and I tried rebooting the Leach controller and all of the commands that go with it, hub startNubs, init, zap, and the abort X button.    Nothing would stop it from finishing that 2495 second exposure.  By the time we realized it was beyond us, the exposure was about to run out anyway so we all decided to wait the last 10 minutes until it finished.  Then everything came back normally and we were able to guide normally.  PR submitted.
The rest of the night was productive, with mostly clear skies and moderate seeing.  The humidity started to get dangerously high during the last half hour, but we finished up before it got too threatening.
                    ------- 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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 22:54 TSPEC   211(  486) 133  54  13.2 14.9 15.3 15.0 13.3   --  2.19
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    69    35      8   228   (SW)   2532    clear     none
     17:00    69    35     19   207  (SSW)   3583 mstly clr    none
     18:00    67    34     10   221   (SW)   3950   cloudy     none
     19:00    66    33     18   237  (WSW)   3429   cloudy     none
     20:00    62    31     11   229   (SW)   3456   cloudy     none
     21:00    61    31      9   224   (SW)   3420   cloudy     none
     22:00    56    43     13    91    (E)   2230   cloudy     none
     23:00    54    41     16   129   (SE)   1873  ptly cldy   none
     00:00    56    40     19   138   (SE)   1633 mstly clr    none
     01:00    54    41     20   128   (SE)   1488 mstly clr    none
     02:00    51    37     10   112  (ESE)   1139    clear     none
     03:00    53    36      1   138   (SE)   1457    clear     none
     04:00    53    42     15   168  (SSE)   1467    clear     none
     05:00    52    45     17   155  (SSE)   1776 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