Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20160509
From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 12:07:04 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Monday, May 09, 2016
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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A.Verbiscer       B.Holler              ARCTIC         19:57   01:00
E.Agol            B.Morris              Agile          01:04   04:22
P.Gaulme          P.Gaulme              Echelle        04:35   05:20
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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UV04/R     20:00   01:10    0    0    0    0   2.0  3.2   0    0
UW01/R     01:10   04:22    0    0    0    0   3.1  0.0   0    0
NM03/O/D   04:22   05:20    0    0    0    0   1.7  0.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: C.Gray
The night started out beautiful!  Clear and a little windy but no dust.  Seeing was excellent and subarcsecond for most of the night.
UW01 was observing a planetary transit and did not need to observe past 04:18. so he stopped (I listed the remainder of the time as Not Used, but I'm not sure if that is correct). I couldn't let such a perfectly good, dark, clear, calm sky go unused!  Thus, I invoked the law of Hey, Don't Waste That! and tried to conduct some of my own observations. Sadly, my lady Venus was not up neither was Mercury or Jupiter, Mars was moving too slow to produce enough of a Doppler shift for my needs and I just couldn't think of any observations I wanted for Saturn.
In the end, Patrick was able to use the time to observe some stars. Which is cool...I guess.  I tried to sucker a one bottle wine fee for my observing assistance but he was having none of my tomfoolery.  I listed him in the Schedule time even though he was technically not scheduled (also not sure if I'm doing that correctly).
No problems tonight.
                    ------- 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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 19:24 arctic   632(  806)  86  59   9.0 10.2  9.9 10.0  9.7   sdss-r  0.80
 21:32 arctic   535(  583)  19  83   7.7  8.0  8.4  7.8  7.5   sdss-r  1.20
 00:13 AGILE    535(-1617) 113  46   7.7  7.6  8.1  7.8  7.5   SDSS-r  1.20
 02:45 AGILE    525(-1684) 117  75   7.4  6.8  7.3  6.8  6.7   SDSS-r  0.70
 03:37 ecamera  519( -700) 127  78   7.5  6.6  7.2  6.6  6.5   Clear  0.90
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    52    22     21   283  (WNW)    733    clear     none
     17:00    52    22     11   264    (W)    711    clear     none
     18:00    52    23     17   276    (W)    702    clear     none
     19:00    53    22     13   263    (W)    666    clear     none
     20:00    49    22     13   253  (WSW)    804    clear     none
     21:00    46    22     21   242  (WSW)    890    clear     none
     22:00    46    22     22   245  (WSW)    882    clear     none
     23:00    46    24     14   262    (W)    843    clear     none
     00:00    46    23     13   296  (WNW)    919    clear     none
     01:00    47    23     22   287  (WNW)    977    clear     none
     02:00    46    24     12   267    (W)    975    clear     none
     03:00    46    23      7   280    (W)    926    clear     none
     04:00    45    24     11   272    (W)    842    clear     none
     05:00    45    23      7   262    (W)    867    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: 2.5.1