Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140126
From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:54:01 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Sunday, January 26, 2014
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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R.Kuzio de Naray  R.Kuzio de Naray      DIS            17:30   00:07
D.York            D.York                Echelle        00:10   03:20
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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GS03/R     17:39   00:10    0    0    0    0   6.5  0.0   0    0
UC03/R     00:10   06:53   0.3  3.2   0    0   3.2   0    0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
When changing instrument ports tonight I choose to first switch to mid, then the Echelle to hopefully avoid the problems of the past few weeks with the B motor on the secondary.  It seemed to do the trick as I had no problems with the mirrors.
Clouds started coming in a little after midnight.  By 03:20 they were getting thick enough to cause some concern.  We were getting no useful data at this point, so I opted to close.
We gave up at 04:50 due to heavy clouds and more to our west approaching.
                    ------- 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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 18:30 dcamera    539(  415) 140  59   3.0  4.3  4.2  4.6  2.9   --  1.46
 18:32 NA2gdr  1990(23990) 140  59   3.0  4.2  4.1  4.5  2.9   clear  1.30
 23:44 dcamera    614(  404) 169  62   2.8  2.7  3.2  2.6  2.7   --  0.80
 00:16 ecamera    746( -508) 169  52   2.7  2.6  3.0  2.6  2.6   ND2  0.63
 02:11 ecamera    752( -516) 185  53   3.2  2.4  2.8  2.6  2.7   ND1  0.87
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    39     5     11   319   (NW)    405    clear     none
     17:00    39     7     11   318   (NW)    405    clear     none
     18:00    37    10     16   316   (NW)    405    clear     none
     19:00    38    15     16   294  (WNW)    405    clear     none
     20:00    39    15     17   318   (NW)    405    clear     none
     21:00    37    18     12   312   (NW)    405    clear     none
     22:00    38    18     11   312   (NW)    405    clear     none
     23:00    39    15     18   308   (NW)    405    clear     none
     00:00    37    16     11   295  (WNW)    405 mstly clr    none
     01:00    36     6      4   312   (NW)    405  ptly cldy   none
     02:00    37     1      7    58  (ENE)    405 mstly cldy   none
     03:00    39     2      3   335  (NNW)    405   cloudy     none
     04:00    38     2     12    52   (NE)    405   cloudy     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: 2.1.0