Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:44:42 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140224
From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Monday, February 24, 2014
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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J.Wang            P.Du,C.Hu             DIS            18:40   00:05
J.Hughes          J.Hughes              SPICam         03:00   06:20
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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IH01/R     18:05   00:10   1.0   0    0    0   5.1  0.0   0    0
UW05/R     00:10   06:27   2.8   0    0    0   0.4  3.1   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: R.McMillan
Thin to medium high clouds all night.  We were open all night but some of
the time nothing was accomplished, so I estimated how much was useless.
We ran the new guide software all night and it handled the clouds
gracefully.  The only problem occurred when it failed to handle a jump at
the time of telescope transit (made harder because I was using a long
exposure time).
In the morning during twilight flats, SPIcam hung up when an exposure was
requested that should be the minimum acceptable time (0.76s).  A hard
instrument reset was required to recover.  The observer said she got
enough flats anyway, so no time lost.
                    ------- 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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 18:56 dcamera    482(  530) 182  70   6.5  7.8  7.7  7.6  6.0   -  1.13
 00:53 SPIcam     613(  681) 316  68   5.9  5.3  5.7  5.4  5.7   r  0.71
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    46    18     11   304   (NW)    691  ptly cldy   none
     17:00    48    19     12   265    (W)    691  ptly cldy   none
     18:00    44    18      7   261    (W)    691  ptly cldy   none
     19:00    44    18      9   234   (SW)    691  ptly cldy   none
     20:00    41    18     12   245  (WSW)    691  ptly cldy   none
     21:00    42    17     10   252  (WSW)    691  ptly cldy   none
     22:00    42    15     12   243  (WSW)    691  ptly cldy   none
     23:00    42    14     11   259    (W)    691  ptly cldy   none
     00:00    42    13     12   264    (W)    691  ptly cldy   none
     01:00    43    16     15   276    (W)    691  ptly cldy   none
     02:00    43    17     16   272    (W)    691  ptly cldy   none
     03:00    43    18     16   289  (WNW)    691  ptly cldy   none
     04:00    42    18     14   293  (WNW)    691  ptly cldy   none
     05:00    41    18     12   300  (WNW)    691  ptly cldy   none
     06:00    41    18     14   307   (NW)    691  ptly 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: 2.1.0