Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20190301
From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Sat,  2 Mar 2019 12:20:19 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Friday, March 01, 2019
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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J.Hughes          J.Hughes              ARCTIC         18:09   23:57
M.Prescott    K.Sanderson, D.Chojnowski DIS            --:--   --:--
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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SU01/R     18:09   00:10    0    0    0    0   6.0  0.0   0    0
NM06/R     00:10   06:22   4.0  2.2   0    0   0.0  0.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
gcam was not happy at checkout.  I just took an image manually and that seemed to fix its unhappiness.
Tspec was also not happy at checkout, giving me blank images.  That took a power cycle of the leech controller to fix.  It seems happy again.
NA2 guider lost the filters in the drop down menu again.  gmech parameters fixed the issue again.
Clouds were too thick to observe at the start of the 2nd half.  We even tried switching to the Echelle for a 4th mag star and Nada.
Clouds started to thin a little around 04:30 but they were forming on top of us and flowing in from the system just off to the west of us.  Mostly sucker holes popping up and going away.  We gave up at 05:15
                    ------- 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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 19:10 arctic   732( 1049)  40  50   7.3  9.0  8.9  8.7  7.5   J-C_U  1.00
 19:16 NA2gdr -4919(38080)  38  51   7.3  8.8  8.8  8.6  7.5   R+ND2  1.00
 23:04 arctic   789(  944)  13  56   6.4  5.9  6.4  6.0  6.3   J-C_U  1.37
 23:05 NA2gdr -4569(38430)  12  56   6.4  5.9  6.4  6.0  6.3   R+ND2  1.37
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    51     6     14   278    (W)    341  ptly cldy   none
     17:00    49     6     11   275    (W)    359  ptly cldy   none
     18:00    46     6     14   238  (WSW)    376 mstly clr    none
     19:00    45     8     15   243  (WSW)    490 mstly clr    none
     20:00    44     7     15   253  (WSW)    586 mstly clr    none
     21:00    43     6     13   251  (WSW)    539 mstly clr    none
     22:00    43     5     14   264    (W)    490 mstly clr    none
     23:00    44     2     29   285  (WNW)    318  ptly cldy   none
     00:00    43     5     17   270    (W)    394   cloudy     none
     01:00    43    11     20   271    (W)    394   cloudy     none
     02:00    43    14     16   271    (W)    463   cloudy     none
     03:00    42    16     17   267    (W)    427   cloudy     none
     04:00    42    15     12   282  (WNW)    498   cloudy     none
     05:00    42    14     16   286  (WNW)    449 mstly 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