Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20171128
From: trudyk@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:27:24 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Tuesday, November 28, 2017
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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M.Bentz           M.Bentz               DIS            17:02   18:04
C.Sakari          C.Sakari              ECHELLE        18:08   00:10
D.Chojnowski      D.Chojnowski          ECHELLE        00:10   00:40
N.Dello           A.McKay               ECHELLE        00:40   06:00
   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     17:06   18:06    0    0    0    0   0.0  1.0   0    0
UW12/R     18:06   00:10    0    0    0    0   0.0  6.1   0    0
NM05/R     00:10   00:40    0    0    0    0   0.0  0.5   0    0
JH06/R     00:40   06:37    0    0    0    0   4.4  1.6   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: T.Rudyk
Evening started with high thin clouds.  Seeing was terrible with winds from the east. Sometime around 22:00 winds shifted west and seeing improved. Clouds began to thicken around this time, though. At 00:18 ecam shutter started acting up, showing horizontal streaks on stars.  Around 03:00 we also started getting vertical lines/gradient on longer exposures (>15 seconds).
Weather held up through the dawn, everyone got their full times on the 3.5.
                    ------- 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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 18:19 dcamera    388(  482) 125  60   6.2  7.7  7.9  7.5  6.7   --  2.05
 19:14 ecamera    438( -509) -21  39   0.6  3.7  4.6  2.8  1.4   clear  2.80
 21:53 ecamera    276( -735) -48  80   3.0  0.7  1.3  0.4  2.2   clear  1.70
 23:10 ecamera    432( -593) -35  73   4.9  2.6  3.4  3.0  4.2   clear  0.89
 01:46 ecamera    320( -641) 182  37   5.0  3.4  4.1  3.3  4.1   clear  1.19
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    45     9      5    88    (E)    665 mstly clr    none
     17:00    44     8      1   162  (SSE)    712 mstly clr    none
     18:00    34    22     14    77  (ENE)   1547 mstly clr    none
     19:00    32    21     14    76  (ENE)   1267 mstly clr    none
     20:00    30    22     14    63  (ENE)   1058 mstly clr    none
     21:00    37     9      1   259    (W)    639  ptly cldy   none
     22:00    41     2      3   257  (WSW)    445  ptly cldy   none
     23:00    40     6      5   252  (WSW)    541  ptly cldy   none
     00:00    42     3      3   251  (WSW)    467  ptly cldy   none
     01:00    40     7      1   226   (SW)    631  ptly cldy   none
     02:00    41     5      3   244  (WSW)    552 mstly clr    none
     03:00    41     5      8   239  (WSW)    589 mstly clr    none
     04:00    41     7      6   254  (WSW)    670 mstly clr    none
     05:00    40     8      8   235   (SW)    783 mstly clr    none
     06:00    40     8      7   247  (WSW)    709 mstly clr    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: 1.2.4
    Current TUI version: 2.6.0