Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20171109
From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:24:23 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Thursday, November 09, 2017
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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M.Bentz           M.Bentz               DIS            17:14   18:08
J.Bally           J.Bally               NICFPS         18:21   00:08
D.Chojnowski      D.Chojnowski          ECHELLE        --:--   --:--
R.Wyse            K.Hawkins             ECHELLE        01:10   05:58
   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     17:14   18:14    0    0    0    0   1.0  0.0   0    0
CU05/R     18:14   00:10    0    0    0    0   4.5  1.4   0    0
NM05/R     00:10   00:40    0    0    0   0.5  0.0  0.0   0    0
JH03/R     00:40   06:21    0    0    0   0.5  0.0  5.2   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: C.Gray
We had some beautiful skies tonight! Clear, calm, subarcsecond seeing!  If only the echelle problems hadn't cropped up.
When NM05 started we noticed that we weren't seeing any stars on ecam.  Turns out the shutter wasn't responding.  It took us a while to trouble shoot and make a work around.  By then NM05 lost all their time and JH03 lost half an hour of theirs (a PR was sent).  However, JH03 was very generous and took an exposure of NM05's target.  Additionally ecam stopped taking exposures after exposure 1231 (04:10 am) and I had to turn it off and on from obs 1 before it would respond.
No problems noticed with the dome doors today.
                    ------- FAILURE LOG -------
PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
    (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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NM05/JH03  E     I/H      00:10  01:10    ecam shutter not responding
            ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt  FWHM
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 17:35 dcamera    411(  547)  51  38   6.8  8.2  7.8  7.8  6.8   --  1.47
 18:28 NICFPS     377(  948) 227  74   7.8  7.4  7.4  7.0  7.7   H2-2.12  0.61
 19:33 NICFPS     417( 1060) 239  63   9.4  8.2  8.5  8.2  9.1   MK-Ks  0.85
 21:51 NICFPS     437( 1058) 159  48   9.1  8.1  8.6  8.1  8.8   H2-2.12  0.79
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    45    27      8   277    (W)    132    clear     none
     17:00    43    26      2   252  (WSW)    129    clear     none
     18:00    43    12      8   355    (N)     54    clear     none
     19:00    49     9      8   355    (N)     58    clear     none
     20:00    48    16      2   333  (NNW)    110    clear     none
     21:00    47    21      8   353    (N)    140    clear     none
     22:00    49    25      6     5    (N)    128    clear     none
     23:00    48    25      6   350    (N)    129    clear     none
     00:00    47    20      2   303  (WNW)     91    clear     none
     01:00    47    25      4   319   (NW)    140    clear     none
     02:00    48    25      5   273    (W)    125    clear     none
     03:00    47    24      3   251  (WSW)    144    clear     none
     04:00    46    22      3   205  (SSW)    140    clear     none
     05:00    46    28      7   236   (SW)    122    clear     none
     06:00    46    24      8   236   (SW)     91    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: 1.2.4
    Current TUI version: 2.6.0