Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:47:10 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20130623
From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Sunday, June 23, 2013
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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M.Gladders        M.Bayliss             NICFPS         20:40   23:15
G.Stringfellow    G.Stringfellow        TripleSpec     02:00   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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UC03/R     20:24   01:10    0   1.9   0    0   0.1  2.8   0    0
CU09/R     01:10   05:48    0   0.8   0    0   0.0  3.8   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: R.McMillan
Thin to medium clouds most of the night, moderate to good seeing.  We
closed for a period in the middle of the night when radar returns got near
(probably virga, but it's always hard to tell).
The second half observer had some trouble with his images.  Partly he was
getting inconsistent downloads, which indicated a network problem at his
end.  But complicating this was the fact that when his slitviewer images
did download successfully, they would not display.  Apparently the newest
version of TUI is incompatible with a slightly older version of MacOSX.
The observer reverted to an older TUI version and the images were able to
display, although the downloads were still unreliable.  I ran the guiding
part of the time and he was able to get it for about half the time.
                    ------- 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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 20:01 NICFPS   393( 1198) 206  49  19.1 19.3 19.2 18.8 18.2   Ks  0.71
 01:08 TSPEC   431(  871) 339  25  17.6 17.3 17.9 17.5 17.5   Ks  1.10
 02:58 TSPEC   484(  877) 316  28  16.4 16.5 17.0 16.6 16.3   Ks  1.10
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    73    30     22   259    (W)    950  ptly cldy   none
     17:00    76    32     13   188    (S)   2109  ptly cldy   none
     18:00    70    29     14   275    (W)   1170  ptly cldy   none
     19:00    69    27     21   211  (SSW)   3301  ptly cldy   none
     20:00    67    27     16   244  (WSW)   2213  ptly cldy   none
     21:00    66    27      8   242  (WSW)   3030 mstly clr    none
     22:00    67    27     10   216   (SW)   1834  ptly cldy   none
     23:00    65    28      5   192  (SSW)   2957  ptly cldy   none
     00:00    65    30     10   191    (S)   2294  ptly cldy   none
     01:00    64    30     11   187    (S)   2088  ptly cldy   none
     02:00    64    28     12   214   (SW)   2512  ptly cldy   none
     03:00    63    30      9   228   (SW)   2554  ptly cldy   none
     04:00    61    29      9   235   (SW)   2703 mstly clr    none
     05:00    61    25      8   263    (W)   1595  ptly cldy   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