Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20141017
From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 11:30:07 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Friday, October 17, 2014
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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B.Balick          K.Kwitter             DIS            18:36   22:36
                                        DIS            04:15   05:15
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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UW05/R     18:36   07:01   3.8  3.6   0    0   4.0  1.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
Clouds closed us around 22:36, although I stayed open a little longer, it wasn't looking promising.  I finally closed at 23:00.
We re-opened at 04:15
I issues a stop in the slew window @10:27:26 and the drives (alt & az) became very unhappy with the stop button being used and halted rather ungracefully.  I had to do an axis stop/init to get the drives working again.
closed at 05:15 due to clouds and approaching precip to our south.
                    ------- 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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 18:55 dcamera    128(  612)  91  61  12.1 16.3 16.0 16.3 13.4   --  1.35
 04:23 dcamera    325(  544) -61  45  10.7 10.7 11.5 10.7 10.6   --  1.50
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    62    39     13   217   (SW)    566 mstly clr    none
     17:00    62    37     14   226   (SW)    654 mstly clr    none
     18:00    57    38     10   227   (SW)    869    clear     none
     19:00    53    38      9   187    (S)   1124    clear     none
     20:00    53    39     11   178    (S)    902    clear     none
     21:00    51    38      9   180    (S)    860  ptly cldy   none
     22:00    51    38      1   159  (SSE)    910  ptly cldy   none
     23:00    54    30      2   273    (W)    567   cloudy     none
     00:00    50    34      0    19  (NNE)    454   cloudy     none
     01:00    51    31     11   181    (S)    462   cloudy     none
     02:00    50    34     11   129   (SE)    477   cloudy     none
     03:00    51    34      7   182    (S)    181 mstly cldy   none
     04:00    51    34      3   239  (WSW)    201  ptly cldy   none
     05:00    50    33      9   180    (S)    236 mstly 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: 2.3.1