Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20130618
From: alaina.apo.nmsu.edu@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:35:39 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Tuesday, June 18, 2013
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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M.Gladders        M.Gladders            NICFPS         --:--   --:--
N.Ule             J.McKeever            ECHELLE        03:00   05:17
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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UC03/R     20:23   01:10    0   4.8   0    0   0.0  0.0   0    0
NM04/R     01:10   05:46   0.4  1.4   0    0   2.8  0.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: A.Bradley
Most of the night was lost to smoke from the Silver fire.  It behaved like thick clouds, and we couldn't see stars through it.  It stayed mostly in the upper atmosphere, away from us, so we never had high dust counts or smoke smell.  However I stayed closed until it cleared out, waiting for when it would drop onto us.  Eventually the dust did get a bit high and the humidity was high as well.  When those cleared out, they took the smoke with them and we were able to open for the last few hours of the night.
No other problems tonight.  Echelle pointing was excellent (after being at NA2), no alt or az motion errors, and tspec did not cause the inst checks to fail in the afternoon.
                    ------- 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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 02:07 ECHELLE   483( -489)   0  58  15.6 15.2 15.4 15.4 15.3   ND2  0.96
              ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    69    34      7   225   (SW)    846 mstly clr    none
     17:00    72    40     18   218   (SW)   1111 mstly clr    none
     18:00    68    42     16   183    (S)   1324  ptly cldy   none
     19:00    66    43     10   209  (SSW)   1468  ptly cldy   none
     20:00    64    43      8   192  (SSW)   1748  ptly cldy   none
     21:00    63    45     12   173    (S)   1788  ptly cldy   none
     22:00    61    47      9   170    (S)   1977  ptly cldy   none
     23:00    59    50     16   162  (SSE)   2418  ptly cldy   none
     00:00    58    52     17   145   (SE)   2876  ptly cldy  humid
     01:00    58    52     22   149  (SSE)   2942  ptly cldy  humid
     02:00    57    53     16   168  (SSE)   3441  ptly cldy   none
     03:00    60    50     19   183    (S)   2918    clear     none
     04:00    61    50     14   187    (S)   2677    clear     none
     05:00    60    49     25   187    (S)   2512    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: 2.0.0