Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20180604
From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Tue,  5 Jun 2018 11:54:43 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Monday, June 04, 2018
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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M.Bentz           M.Bentz               NICFPS         20:17   23:42
C.Sakari          C.Sakari              ECHELLE        03:30   05:05
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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GS04/R     20:17   01:10   1.1  0.4   0    0   3.4   0    0    0
UW11/R     01:10   05:46    0   2.3   0    0   0.0  2.3   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: C.Gray
Not as good a night as I had hoped.  Things were sorta clear all night, if we are just considering clouds.  However, we are considering that pesky, perturbing, petulant, peeving, pestering, persisting pollen!  It was coming down pretty thick tonight so we closed up for a few hours.  It never really died down... However, aside from that, we did have good seeing.
No problems tonight.
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Here's a song from way back when beehiving' times:
Let me tell you 'bout the birds and the bees
And the flowers and the trees
The moon up above, and the thing called POLLEN!
Let me tell you 'bout the scope in the sky
That pollen ain't shy
And the way they could kiss
On a night like this
When I scratch upon my big red eyes
It's very plain to see
That it's time you learn about the facts in life
Startin' from A to P
Let me tell you 'bout the birds and the bees
When I look into your big red eyes...
Well, let me tell you 'bout ANTS!!! FLYING ANTS!
GIANT, BLACK, MURDEROUS FLYING BLACK ANTS!!!
                    ------- 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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 19:34 NICFPS     465( 1743)  70  40  18.3 20.8 20.3 20.4 18.9   MK-H  0.81
 20:53 NICFPS     360( 1514) 151  59  17.9 18.7 18.9 18.2 17.7   MK-H  1.17
 02:39 ecamera    405(  115) 338  32  16.1 16.4 17.3 16.4 16.1   ND3  1.13
              ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    73    31     12   247  (WSW)    770 mstly clr    none
     17:00    74    30     13   284  (WNW)   1013 mstly clr    none
     18:00    73    30     10   260    (W)    872 mstly clr    none
     19:00    72    29      8   260    (W)   1047 mstly clr    none
     20:00    66    24      4   280    (W)   1076 mstly clr    none
     21:00    64    26      6   211  (SSW)   1128 mstly clr    none
     22:00    64    29      8   178    (S)   1046 mstly clr    none
     23:00    63    30      2   183    (S)   1340 mstly clr    none
     00:00    63    28      9   180    (S)   1134 mstly clr    none
     01:00    65    23     12   221   (SW)   1069 mstly clr    none
     02:00    64    26      9   186    (S)   1124 mstly clr    none
     03:00    61    31     12   187    (S)   1180 mstly clr    none
     04:00    61    37     15   196  (SSW)   1667 mstly clr    none
     05:00    61    34      7   188    (S)   1676 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