Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20141006
From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Tue,  7 Oct 2014 12:26:30 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Monday, October 06, 2014
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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M.Hammergren      M.Hammergren, G.Gyuk  SPIcam         17:45   21:10
                                        Agile          21:10   22:30
                                        DIS            22:30   22:55
J.Jackiewicz      J.Jackiewicz          ECHELLE        00:00   06:10
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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AD01/R     18:50   00:10    0    0    0    0   0.0  5.3   0    0
NM01/O     00:10   06:53    0    0    0    0   0.7  6.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
Clouds from Tropical Storm Simon approaching.
I found the NA2 guide camera not responding (no pings) during checkout.  I had to power cycle it.
When I did an axis init with AGILE as the instrument, then set inst to spicam the rotator showed stop button and did not rotate when the users commanded a slew (via tcc not slew window, they were tracking at non-sidereal rates).  I did an axis init rot to fix.
While adjusting focus I got the following error
2014-10-07 03:13:51 APO.Jack-Obs1 200 tcc f text="Sub-command(s) failed: move -1607.8002,-400.0000,193.8651,-198.3972,-127.0859: 826 1 f "
I just set the focus value directly and never saw the error again.
Other than fighting clouds, no problems at all tonight.
                    ------- 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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 19:42 SPIcam     270(  804) -11  33  11.8 13.6 13.4 12.8 85.0 SDSS r  1.60
 19:43 NA2gdr   187(30187) -12  33  11.9 13.5 13.4 12.8 85.0   clear  1.50
 21:17 AGILE      170(-1609)  -2  51  10.9 11.9 12.2 11.5 85.0 SDSS r  1.30
 22:44 dcamera    201(  431) -74  78  13.4 11.4 11.7 11.1 85.0   --  1.50
 00:03 ecamera    331( -426) 269  62  14.2 12.6 13.2 12.7 85.0   ND1  0.91
 02:59 ecamera    233( -546) -58  69  11.7 12.2 12.7 12.1 85.0   ND3  0.77
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    58    20      9   288  (WNW)    784 mstly clr    none
     17:00    57    24      4   288  (WNW)    644 mstly clr    none
     18:00    55    24      8   299  (WNW)    581 mstly clr    none
     19:00    54    25     12   298  (WNW)    660 mstly clr    none
     20:00    53    25      9   277    (W)    609  ptly cldy   none
     21:00    53    23      6   293  (WNW)    608  ptly cldy   none
     22:00    52    23      6   335  (NNW)    937  ptly cldy   none
     23:00    57    20      7     4    (N)   1236 mstly cldy   none
     00:00    58    18     12   341  (NNW)   1202 mstly cldy   none
     01:00    56    19      7   337  (NNW)   1327 mstly cldy   none
     02:00    56    19      3   354    (N)   1181 mstly cldy   none
     03:00    54    18     11   326   (NW)    978 mstly cldy   none
     04:00    55    20      8   328  (NNW)    686 mstly cldy   none
     05:00    53    20      8   287  (WNW)    685  ptly cldy   none
     06:00    54    19     12   314   (NW)    613 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