Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20161209
From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 14:08:40 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Friday, December 09, 2016
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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C.Gray            C.Gray                ECHELLE        17:06   20:28
M.Hammergren      K.Nault, M.Brucker    ARCTIC         20:45   23:09
T.Murphy          R.McMillan, N.Battat  APOLLO         23:14   00:10
C.Sakari          C.Sakari              ECHELLE        00:16   06:06
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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NM02/O     17:06   20:36    0    0    0   0.2  0.0  3.3   0    0
AD02/R     20:36   23:10    0    0    0    0   0.0  2.6   0    0
AP01/R     23:10   00:10    0    0    0    0   0.0  1.0   0    0
UW05/R     00:10   06:46    0    0    0    0   3.8  2.8   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: C.Gray
The night started out clear with beautiful sub-arcsecond seeing!  It proved too good for Venus.  She was way too bright for the slit viewer so we couldn't determine proper locations. Additionally, the chip started reading all 0's on the last two Venus exposures and I had to restart the ICC (a hub startNubs didn't work).  I was able to restart and test while moving and focusing on a standard star so not too much time was lost.
Then we had clouds roll in...and haze, so while seeing was good, transparency was just the worse.  Everything else went off without a hitch, even the laser worked perfectly tonight!
                    ------- FAILURE LOG -------
PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
    (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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NM02   E        I/S       19:34   19:48   Echelle ICC restart
            ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt  FWHM
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 17:31 ecamera    974( -238)  -5  31   4.7  6.2  5.3  6.0  5.8   ND5  0.98
 19:47 ecamera    826( -476) -39  34   4.6  4.5  5.0  4.6  4.6   clear  0.80
 20:47 arctic   745(  615) -27  79   4.7  4.4  5.0  4.6  4.6   SDSS-r  0.69
 23:18 APOLLO     625( 1208) 277  57   4.4  3.5  4.1  3.6  3.6   553  1.20
 00:24 ecamera    782( -541) 329  49   4.6  4.3  4.8  4.6  4.6   clear  0.64
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    42    19      3   238  (WSW)    605    clear     none
     17:00    39    13      2   205  (SSW)     42    clear     none
     18:00    41    12      6   203  (SSW)     26    clear     none
     19:00    40    11      6   222   (SW)     23    clear     none
     20:00    41    11      2   213  (SSW)     15    clear     none
     21:00    41    11      6   264    (W)     14 mstly clr    none
     22:00    38    11     10   239  (WSW)     10  ptly cldy   none
     23:00    39    11      7   260    (W)     13 mstly cldy   none
     00:00    41    11      9   248  (WSW)     16 mstly cldy   none
     01:00    41     9      8   262    (W)     24 mstly cldy   none
     02:00    40    10     10   256  (WSW)     18 mstly cldy   none
     03:00    40    10     11   271    (W)     16  ptly cldy   none
     04:00    40    10     12   274    (W)     16    clear     none
     05:00    39     9     11   273    (W)     25    clear     none
     06:00    39    10     10   275    (W)     47    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: 1.2.2
    Current TUI version: 2.6.0