Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 23:21:00 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20140424
From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu
                     Apache Point Observatory
                     3.5m Telescope Night Log
                     Thursday, April 24, 2014
                                                          ACTUAL
ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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J.Wang            P.Du,C.Hu             DIS            20:20   01:12
N.Zakamska        M.Strauss             DIS            01:13   02:15
P.Gaulme          P.Gaulme              ECHELLE        02:20   05:50
  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     19:49   01:10    0    0    0    0   5.4  0.0   0    0
JH01/R     01:10   02:40    0    0    0    0   1.5  0.0   0    0
NM05/R     02:40   06:14    0    0    0   0.1  1.3  2.2   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
             ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: R.McMillan
A clear, quiet, and productive night with good seeing.
The pointing difficulties were still noticeable with the echelle.  I set
it up to favor better pointing after a downward slew (typical of the first
target after rotating the tertiary), and this worked nicely to start with,
making initial acquisition very smooth.  But over time as the Kepler field
tracked upward this became less true, until finally on one field we were
really lost.  My quick-fix guesses didn't work, so we had to slew away and
back to cross some magnesensors, and then the pointing was okay again.
This probably didn't really take more time than multiple one- or
two-minute pointing difficulties, but since it was an identifiable chunk
of time I listed it as EQUIP.
                   ------- FAILURE LOG -------
PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
   (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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NM05    E        T/H      04:46  04:51   pointing problem
           ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt  FWHM
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19:26 dcamera    700(  927) 133  73   8.7 11.3 10.3 12.0  9.0   -  1.26
01:23 ecamera    701( -246) 126  39   8.4  8.2  8.8  8.2  7.8   ND1  0.95
              ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                  Wind                      Precip.or
    Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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    16:00    52    10     11   294  (WNW)   2622  ptly cldy   none
    17:00    51    11      6   305   (NW)   2759  ptly cldy   none
    18:00    52    12      6   264    (W)   2730 mstly clr    none
    19:00    51     9     14   217   (SW)   2990 mstly clr    none
    20:00    48     6     13   202  (SSW)   3457    clear     none
    21:00    48     6     16   186    (S)   3661    clear     none
    22:00    48     6     12   190    (S)   3415    clear     none
    23:00    49     7     14   216   (SW)   2895    clear     none
    00:00    49     9     14   253  (WSW)   2616    clear     none
    01:00    48     7     16   216   (SW)   2672    clear     none
    02:00    48     7     20   210  (SSW)   2835    clear     none
    03:00    47     8     17   210  (SSW)   2446    clear     none
    04:00    46    11     17   222   (SW)   2233    clear     none
    05:00    45    11     15   260    (W)   2460    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