Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20170115
From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:02:52 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Sunday, January 15, 2017
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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C.Gray            C.Gray                ECHELLE        --:--   --:--
L.Hebb            B.Morris              Echelle        --:--   --:--
D.Gies            D.Gies                ECHELLE        --:--   --:--
T.Murphy          R.McMillan            APOLLO         --:--   --:--
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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NM03/R     17:29   20:29   3.0  0.0   0    0    0   0     0    0
UW09/R     20:29   00:10   0.5  3.2   0    0    0   0     0    0
GS03/R     00:10   05:57   0.0  5.8   0    0    0   0     0    0
AP01/R     05:57   06:57   0.0  1.0   0    0    0   0     0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: C.Gray
For tonight, there was never much hope...just a fool's hope.  We had the White Wizard-er-blizzard.
Dataq was frozen and needed to be restarted.
The snow continued to fall until about 10pm.  We had a fresh 4 inches and then freezing fog.  The wind was fairly calm but we had several power flickers at the beginning of the night and at 20:00 we went onto generator power.  We had another power outage again at 01:08am when I think the power tried to go to utility and failed and went back to generator.  I ran the snow program for several hours but stopped after the second power outage as it kept stopping the drives.
                    ------- 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    27    27      9   228   (SW)          cloudy     snow
     17:00    26    25     13   263    (W)          cloudy     snow
     18:00    26    25     13   267    (W)          cloudy     snow
     19:00    26    25     11   266    (W)          cloudy     snow
     20:00    28    27     16   270    (W)          cloudy     snow
     21:00    29    28     12   264    (W)          cloudy     fog
     22:00    29    29     11   296  (WNW)          cloudy     fog
     23:00    28    28     14   291  (WNW)          cloudy     fog
     00:00    28    27     13   314   (NW)          cloudy     fog
     01:00    28    27     17   323   (NW)          cloudy     fog
     02:00    28    27     19   305   (NW)          cloudy     fog
     03:00    27    27     14    22  (NNE)          cloudy     fog
     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