Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20180621
From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:29:44 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Thursday, June 21, 2018
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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J.Lomax           J.Lomax               NICFPS         20:23   00:33
J.Lomax           J.Lomax               Eyepiece       00:43   01:10
K.Neugent         K.Neugent             Eyepiece       01:40   01:50
K.Neugent         K.Neugent             DIS            01:50   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/O     20:23   01:10    0    0    0    0   0.0  4.8   0    0
UW03/O     01:10   05:47    0    0    0    0   3.3  1.3   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: C.Gray
Surprise, surprise, dataq wasn't working at check out.  What was surprising was that turing Dataq On and Off in tron brought everything back without needed to close out of parallels.
Seeing wasn't fabulous tonight, we had an easterly wind along the ground with a high westerly wind.  What was fabulous was putting on the eyepiece!! Since our whole night was devoted to training new peeps, they decided they wanted some time during switch over to see the sky.  The Dumbbell was basically invisible but the Snowball made us all squee!  Mars was...a giant dust storm, Saturn was at a great angle to see the rings and Cassini gap (along with a couple moons), and Jupiter was staring at us with it's cyclops red eye but there were no moons visible.  We had far too much fun.  Oh, and I guess we looked at some stars with DIS and NICFPS and hunted for binaries.
                    ------- 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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 19:50 NICFPS     425( 1775) 230  72  21.2 22.7 22.2 21.9 21.0   MK-H  0.77
 21:09 NICFPS     565( 1780)  31  41  18.8 19.6 20.2 19.2 18.8   MK-H  1.59
 21:56 NICFPS     589( 1732)  82  40  17.3 18.2 19.0 18.0 17.5   MK-H  1.73
 00:56 dcamera    420(  931) -56  61  16.4 15.9 16.6 16.0 15.9   --  1.89
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    71    36     10   317   (NW)    622    clear     none
     17:00    79    38     13   267    (W)    536    clear     none
     18:00    74    34     12   260    (W)    517    clear     none
     19:00    74    32      5   281    (W)    412    clear     none
     20:00    71    27      1   317   (NW)    361    clear     none
     21:00    70    29      4   188    (S)    441    clear     none
     22:00    66    45     18   138   (SE)    794    clear     none
     23:00    63    46     19   131   (SE)   1063    clear     none
     00:00    61    45     18   136   (SE)    963    clear     none
     01:00    61    44     15   144   (SE)    854    clear     none
     02:00    62    42     12   179    (S)    763    clear     none
     03:00    61    41     15   177    (S)    554    clear     none
     04:00    63    41     16   176    (S)    441    clear     none
     05:00    61    43     14   203  (SSW)    510    clear     none
     06:00    61    43      9   170    (S)    444    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