Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140416
From: alaina@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:54:01 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Wednesday, April 16, 2014
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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M.Klaene          A.Bradley             X              17:45   22:55
   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     19:43   06:23    0   4.0   0    0   1.5  4.9   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: A.Bradley
Tonight's goal was to exercise the new altitude controllers.  Unfortunately, we ran into some problems (see email for details) and the telescope is unusable until the engineering staff comes in.  I parked the telescope where it was, and closed up at 01:15.  I did fills at 05:40.
Weather wise, the night started out clear, but after a few hours became very cloudy with a threat of rain.  Of course we didn't get any.  It was clear for just about all of second half.
In the afternoon I zeroed the rotator and reset all 4 axes.
                    ------- 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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 19:04 dcamera    544(  719) 122  64   9.1 10.3 10.7  9.6  9.0   --  1.34
  19:16 GUIDER   323(  634) 125  67   9.3 10.0 10.4  9.3  9.1  Clear 1.67
 19:19 NA2gdr -1387(20612) 126  68   9.3  9.9 10.3  9.3  9.0   Clear  1.73
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    55    11     17   226   (SW)   1464    clear     none
     17:00    55    12     12   259    (W)   1520    clear     none
     18:00    54    11     12   263    (W)   1422    clear     none
     19:00    54     9     18   263    (W)   1624 mstly clr    none
     20:00    48     5     22   245  (WSW)   1424 mstly clr    none
     21:00    49     3     17   239  (WSW)   1431  ptly cldy   none
     22:00    49     4     18   260    (W)   1394   cloudy     none
     23:00    47     2     19   268    (W)   2676   cloudy     dust
     00:00    46     2     10   308   (NW)  16768   cloudy     dust
     01:00    46     3     11    39   (NE)   2453   cloudy     none
     02:00    43     9     13    53   (NE)   2146    clear     none
     03:00    43    11      8    61  (ENE)   2151    clear     none
     04:00    44    10      7   303  (WNW)   2344    clear     none
     05:00    42    11      7    34   (NE)   2576    clear     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: 2.2.0