Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150824
From: mcmillan@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:02:01 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Monday, August 24, 2015
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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T.Murphy          R.McMillan            APOLLO         --:--   --:--
J.Roberts         J.Roberts,M.Brogi     ECHELLE        23:15   01:10
T.Marriage        M.Hilton              NICFPS         --:--   --:--
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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AP01/R     19:47   20:47    0   1.0   0    0   0.0  0.0   0    0
CU04/R     20:47   01:10    0   3.5   0    0   0.0  0.9   0    0
JH04/R     01:10   06:25   4.2  1.1   0    0   0.0  0.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: R.McMillan
Clouds most of the night with a few sprinkles in the evening and again in the morning.  In between, we were able to open for a short while to get some observing practice and a few photons from a bright star, but it was probably more useful for training than for science.  NICFPS noise seemed higher than normal at the time of checkout, so I power cycled the Leach controller to bring the noise down for a while.  There was also a problem with the weather status page starting around 2 am (also making me unable to do the weather section of this log), but the weather numbers were still reaching the TCC so I was able to keep an eye on the most important stats that way.
                    ------- 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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 23:26 ecamera    289( -543) 120  59  12.6 13.9 15.1 13.7 13.3   ND3  1.27
     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: 1.0.4
    Current TUI version: 2.4.0