Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140204
From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Wed,  5 Feb 2014 12:59:26 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Tuesday, February 04, 2014
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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M.Eracleous       M.Eracleous           DIS            18:15   23:44
J.Wang            P.Du                  DIS            23:44   02:45
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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DD01/R     17:47   00:10    0    0    0    0   0.9  5.5   0    0
IH01/R     00:10   06:47   3.6   0    0    0   3.0  0.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: A.Bradley
At 02:21, dcam kept failing to start guiding. It came up with "02:21:48 DD01.MikeE 53 dcam f text="guide star moved off frame."  It did this every time Mike tried to restart the guiding, until I tried myself.  Then it was ok, and he was able to start the guiding himself.  I know we're getting a new guide software soon, but this is a new failure that I have not seen before.
Towards the end of first half, the guider had an extremely hard time keeping the stars.  Even the NA2 guider was letting the field drift away and complained about it.  Second half didn't get much opportunity to test this, because the clouds were too think to guide on their objects.
Closed at 2:45 because the clouds were too thick to get any data (We tried awful hard!), so we opted to take cals instead.  The timing was good, because the clouds developed some radar returns shortly after.
                    ------- 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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 18:35 dcamera    468( -116) -39  82  -5.8 -4.5 -3.8 -4.5 -5.5   --  1.03
 21:29 dcamera    618(  -77) 139  67  -6.2 -6.8 -6.2 -6.9 -6.7   --  0.87
 23:55 dcamera    666(  -21) 296  75  -5.8 -6.5 -6.0 -6.4 -6.1   --  2.00
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    24     8     21   271    (W)    400  ptly cldy   none
     17:00    25    10     19   258  (WSW)    437  ptly cldy   none
     18:00    22    10     17   263    (W)    671 mstly clr    none
     19:00    21    10     14   267    (W)    612 mstly clr    none
     20:00    21    10     15   268    (W)    525    clear     none
     21:00    20    10     11   290  (WNW)    452  ptly cldy   none
     22:00    21    10     10   279    (W)    465  ptly cldy   none
     23:00    22     9     13   315   (NW)    427   cloudy     none
     00:00    21    10      9   356    (N)    358 mstly cldy   none
     01:00    23     8      6   357    (N)    345 mstly cldy   none
     02:00    23     8      4   291  (WNW)    323   cloudy     none
     03:00    23     8      5   281    (W)    345   cloudy     none
     04:00    24     7      9   204  (SSW)    374   cloudy     none
     05:00    24     5      9   222   (SW)    292   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