Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20141007
From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Wed,  8 Oct 2014 12:07:21 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Tuesday, October 07, 2014
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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M.Klaene          A.Bradley, R.McMillan X              18:15   05:55
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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EN01/R     18:48   06:54    0    0    0    0   0.0 12.1   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: A.Bradley
Surprisingly, the weather was not overly threatening.  Just a bit obnoxious.  We were open all night, and ticked off just about every engineering task.  See engineering email for details (there are many).  Seeing was also pretty excellent, despite the clouds.  We called it a night when we ran out of doable tasks at about 5:30.
The clouds were very obliging, and cleared to let us see some of the lunar eclipse, although not at it's darkest.
                    ------- 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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 18:08 guider   261(  809) 162  70  11.8 14.7 14.2 14.4 85.0   Red ND2  0.99
 20:43 dcamera    127(  410)  87  43  12.1 11.9 12.1 11.4 85.0   --  1.49
 00:31 dcamera    249(  485) -101  43  12.1 10.9 11.5 10.6 85.0   --  1.28
 01:54 SPIcam     246(  636) -13  62  13.3 11.4 11.9 11.4 85.0   SDSS r  0.80
            --------------- WEATHER LOG ---------------
                       Wind                      Precip.or
 Time    Temp F Dewp F MPH Direction  Dust  Sky  Conditions
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 16:00     59     24    2  331 (NNW)   962 mstly cldy  none
 17:00     57     27    0  258 (WSW)  1007 mstly cldy  none
 18:00     57     28    6  356  (N)    871  ptly cldy  none
 19:00     54     28   11   10  (N)    868  ptly cldy  none
 20:00     55     22    6    6  (N)    847  mstly clr  none
 21:00     54     24    1  348 (NNW)   950  mstly clr  none
 22:00     54     25    1  267  (W)   1133    clear    none
 23:00     51     28    3  225  (SW)  1467    clear    none
 00:00     52     27    6  217  (SW)  1041  ptly cldy  none
 01:00     53     25    3  241 (WSW)  1026  ptly cldy  none
 02:00     54     23    2  194 (SSW)   889 mstly cldy  none
 03:00     56     18    6  231  (SW)   726  ptly cldy  none
 04:00     52     20    6  260  (W)    737  ptly cldy  none
 05:00     53     19   10  233  (SW)   619 mstly cldy  none
 06:00     52     31    9  222  (SW)   534    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: 2.3.1