Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20180630
From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Sun,  1 Jul 2018 12:16:43 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Saturday, June 30, 2018
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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R.Wyse            R.Wyse                ECHELLE        20:24   01:04
Y.Zhu             D.Ren, X.Zhang        PAO            01:10   05:55
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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JH03/R     20:24   01:10    0    0    0    0   1.7  3.0   0    0
DD01/O     01:10   05:50    0    0    0    0   0.0  4.7   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: C.Gray
Even thought it was forecasted to be rainy and windy tonight, it was actually rather clear! We did have a dual layer of winds from the east and west. Seeing was pretty good all night but some clouds rolled in around midnight and spoiled the JH03's last couple of exposures.
The Portable Adaptive Optics (Visiting Instrument) team any myself got a lot more data and practice with the instrument. Offset errors decreased from 100% wrong on the first try to about 50%!
The Dataq needed to be restarted, but what's new.
ARCSAT was being extremely annoying (see email) and required over an hour of hand holding.
                    ------- 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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 19:38 ecamera    353(   88)  -5  67  15.2 17.4 17.4 17.1 16.1   ND2  0.98
 20:38 ecamera    292(    3) -26  43  16.6 16.6 16.9 16.3 16.3   Clear  1.21
 19:38 ecamera    353(   88)  -5  67  15.2 17.4 17.4 17.1 16.1   ND2  0.98
 20:38 ecamera    292(    3) -26  43  16.6 16.6 16.9 16.3 16.3   Clear  1.21
 01:49 pao   -35( -903)  83  52  14.8 14.2 14.8 14.1 14.2   Clear  1.30
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    63    37     11   272    (W)    744  ptly cldy   none
     17:00    64    35     10   323   (NW)    796  ptly cldy   none
     18:00    67    33     12   296  (WNW)   1011  ptly cldy   none
     19:00    64    32      7   321   (NW)   1015 mstly clr    none
     20:00    62    32      8   304   (NW)    986 mstly clr    none
     21:00    61    34      6   326   (NW)    968 mstly clr    none
     22:00    62    35     10   248  (WSW)    689 mstly clr    none
     23:00    61    33     15   231   (SW)    756 mstly clr    none
     00:00    60    31      9   260    (W)    753 mstly cldy   none
     01:00    60    27     10   264    (W)    749 mstly clr    none
     02:00    59    25      6   264    (W)    645 mstly clr    none
     03:00    59    24      5   279    (W)    619 mstly clr    none
     04:00    60    22      5   331  (NNW)    901  ptly cldy   none
     05:00    60    22      3   348  (NNW)    647  ptly cldy   none
     06:00    58    22      9     4    (N)    650  ptly cldy   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