Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20161227
From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 12:07:44 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Tuesday, December 27, 2016
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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D.Bizyaev         D.Bizyaev             DIS            --:--   --:--
C.Vargas          C.Vargas              ARCTIC         --:--   --:--
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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NM08/O     17:14   00:10  6.9  0.0    0    0    0    0    0    0
NM10/R     00:10   06:56  6.1  0.7    0    0    0    0    0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
Forecast was clear sky, we got clouds all night!  Well we did have very brief patches of some thinning but then clouds.
We did have some clearing after 04:40 but my observer needed at least 1.5hrs to get anything useful and at this point, by the time I would have the telescope open and focused we would be running into twilight.  We still had unstable clouds to our west moving this way as well, so I called it for the night at 05:00 at which time we had scattered clouds passing overhead again.
                    ------- 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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               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    43    -1      8   274    (W)    219 mstly cldy   none
     17:00    44    -2     18   304   (NW)    228 mstly cldy   none
     18:00    43    -3     13   331  (NNW)    208 mstly cldy   none
     19:00    43     3     15   284  (WNW)    223   cloudy     none
     20:00    43     7     15   312   (NW)    190   cloudy     none
     21:00    42    -3     12   300  (WNW)    193   cloudy     none
     22:00    42    -3      8   314   (NW)    199   cloudy     none
     23:00    43    -2     12   302  (WNW)    173   cloudy     none
     00:00    43    -1      7   318   (NW)    194   cloudy     none
     01:00    41     1     10   290  (WNW)    197 mstly cldy   none
     02:00    41     5     10   285  (WNW)    242 mstly cldy   none
     03:00    41    -4     14   313   (NW)    215 mstly cldy   none
     04:00    42    -4     15   314   (NW)    137 mstly cldy   none
     05:00    41    -5     18   314   (NW)    166 mstly 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: 1.2.2
    Current TUI version: 2.6.0