Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20130807
From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Thu,  8 Aug 2013 12:21:13 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Wednesday, August 07, 2013
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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M.Klaene       J.Dembicky, R.McMillan   NA2gdr         20:05   02:10
K.Pan          K.Pan                    DIS            02:10   03:35
J.Stocke       J.Stocke, B.Keeney       DIS            03:35   06:25
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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EN02/R     20:05   02:10    0    0    0    0   5.9  0.2   0    0
DD01/R     02:10   03:35    0    0    0    0   1.4  0.0   0    0
CU09/R     03:35   06:14    0    0    0    0   2.7  0.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
Agile was powered down today, per our new procedure, since it is not scheduled.
Clouds during twilight kept us closed until they moved past.
Pointing model tonight.  Russet and Fritz refined the parameters.  Russet did most of the bull work tonight with.
At 09:55:00UT DIS slitviewer boresight suddenly found a non-existant star below the slit and tried boresight centering this (we were boresight guiding fine up to this point).  It then found this non-existant star for the next 2 frames, pushing the real star out of the slit and off the real boresight.  See dcam images 120-124.  Subsequent dis slit exposures kept moving this non-existant star around in the field and the guider tried putting it in the slit at the boresight.
10:08UT 0156 I took over guiding, it was happier.  I didn't do anything special on my end.  The observer was using TUI 2.0.0 on a Mac (10.6.8)
At the end of the night the CU observer noticed a problem with the red bias frames.  This was not present during checkout earlier.  PR submitted.
                    ------- 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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 21:44 GUIDER   275(  879)  39  75  14.0 15.8 16.2 15.8 14.1   R+ND2  0.84
 02:17 dis-slit   553(  851) 342  57  12.5 12.5 13.0 12.6 12.4   --  1.43
 03:41 dis-slit   452(  720) 323  51  11.4 11.8 12.3 11.8 11.2   --  1.16
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    67    47      7   257  (WSW)         ptly cldy   none
     17:00    66    49     14   219   (SW)         ptly cldy   none
     18:00    66    48     10   244  (WSW)         ptly cldy   none
     19:00    60    46     12   247  (WSW)          cloudy   lt rain
     20:00    54    48     14    24  (NNE)        mstly cldy   none
     21:00    57    46      9   306   (NW)         ptly cldy   none
     22:00    57    47      8   271    (W)         ptly cldy   none
     23:00    57    45      8   343  (NNW)         ptly cldy   none
     00:00    56    45     11   340  (NNW)           clear     none
     01:00    55    43     14   338  (NNW)           clear     none
     02:00    55    42     11   332  (NNW)           clear     none
     03:00    54    43     14   330  (NNW)           clear     none
     04:00    52    45      2   347  (NNW)           clear     none
     05:00    52    44     17   324   (NW)           clear     none
     06:00    51    44      7     6    (N)           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