Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20150827
From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:23:58 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Thursday, August 27, 2015
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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D.Gies            Z.Guo                 ECHELLE        --:--   --:--
M.Hammergren      K.Nault, M.Brucker    SPICam         01:20   02:10
A.Ritchey         A.Ritchey             ECHELLE        02:15   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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GS01/R     19:43   00:10    0   4.5   0    0   0.0   0    0    0
AD02/R     00:10   02:10    0   1.2   0    0   0.0  0.8   0    0
UW11/R     02:10   06:27    0    0    0    0   1.1  3.2   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
clouds with some lt. rain kept us closed during the first half.  skies cleared enough that we were able to open a little after 01:00.
Russet got a focus dougnut with SPIcam between the 2nd and 3rd program of the night to compare with the engineering scheduled for later today.
                    ------- 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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 01:33 SPIcam      62(  532)  21  62  15.7 16.0 17.4 15.9 15.6 sdss_r  0.80
 02:23 ecamera    154( -561) 136  31  15.2 15.4 16.3 15.2 14.9   ND1  1.25
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp C Dewp C  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    67    47      8   268    (W)    353   cloudy     none
     17:00    65    46      9   266    (W)    344   cloudy     none
     18:00    63    47      5   260    (W)    384   cloudy     none
     19:00    61    47      9    27  (NNE)    611   cloudy   lt rain
     20:00    62    46      1    76  (ENE)    469   cloudy     none
     21:00    61    47      3   261    (W)    443   cloudy   lt rain
     22:00    59    47      6    89    (E)    522   cloudy     none
     23:00    60    45      3   228   (SW)    307   cloudy     none
     00:00    60    45      3   153  (SSE)    364   cloudy     none
     01:00    59    46      5   197  (SSW)    412  ptly cldy   none
     02:00    59    46      6   230   (SW)    435  ptly cldy   none
     03:00    60    46      7   243  (WSW)    495  ptly cldy   none
     04:00    60    46      9   270    (W)    504  ptly cldy   none
     05:00    60    46      9   296  (WNW)    411  ptly cldy   none
     06:00    59    46      5   348  (NNW)    375  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: 1.0.4
    Current TUI version: 2.4.0