Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20180620
From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:05:33 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Wednesday, June 20, 2018
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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J.Lomax           J.Lomax               NICFPS         20:23   01:04
K.Neugent         K.Neugent             DIS            01:20   05:25
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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UW05/R     20:23   01:10    0    0    0    0   0.0  4.8   0    0
UW03/R     01:10   05:47    0    0    0   0.1  3.9  0.7   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: C.Gray
Another great night! Is there a streak happening? Our trainees J.Lomax and K.Neugent were rocking the Casbah of the 3.5m cockpit.  They had slewing, exposures, guiding, calculation, cals, and cookies down like pros. The weather was clear with little wind (thought the wind couldn't make up its mind as to weather it wanted to blow east or west), no dust, and some moderate seeing.
The only hiccup we had was that dcam was not responding during switch over.  This should have been an easy fix but, for the life of me, I was not seeing the difference between tcam and dcam when I tried to restart the hub.  Thus, we lost about 8 min while I let my wheels spin. A hub restart with the real dcam was all that was needed.
The dataq needed a restart at checkout and, if the tread continues, should need another restart tomorrow.
It's summer solstice! The shortest night of the year! Which means...it's all downhill from here?
                    ------- FAILURE LOG -------
PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
    (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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UW05    D         I/S     01:35  01:43    dcam not responding
            ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt  FWHM
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 21:33 NICFPS     344( 1518) 117  32  18.2 18.7 19.1 18.1 17.2   MK-H  1.23
 00:46 dcamera    359(  933)  -9  38  17.8 16.8 17.4 16.5 16.9   --  1.73
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    73    30     13   283  (WNW)    478    clear     none
     17:00    75    31     15   252  (WSW)    507    clear     none
     18:00    76    31     10   264    (W)    443    clear     none
     19:00    72    28      7   308   (NW)    463    clear     none
     20:00    70    26      5   262    (W)    535    clear     none
     21:00    68    25      6   267    (W)    565    clear     none
     22:00    62    40      2    57  (ENE)    613    clear     none
     23:00    66    29      4   273    (W)    558    clear     none
     00:00    64    38      6   261    (W)    613    clear     none
     01:00    65    35      6   272    (W)    587    clear     none
     02:00    64    37      2   211  (SSW)    627    clear     none
     03:00    63    40      5   189    (S)    665    clear     none
     04:00    63    40      3   187    (S)    735    clear     none
     05:00    64    36      2   238  (WSW)    818    clear     none
     06:00    60    46      5   210  (SSW)    984    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