Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20190514
From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 12:20:14 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Tuesday, May 14, 2019
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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H.Lewis           H.Lewis, M.Brewer     ARCTIC         20:30   01:55
M.Klaene          C.Gray                Shack          01:55   02:40
M.Klaene          C.Gray                ARCTIC         02:40   06:00
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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UV02/R     20:03   01:55    0    0    0    0   0.0  5.9   0    0
EN01/W     01:55   05:56    0    0    0    0   1.6  2.4   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: C.Gray
The monsoon is here.  More afternoon thunderstorms that cleared before sunset and we were able to stay open the whole night! There were some clouds at the beginning but cleared up fast and we had excellent seeing.
Russet was kind enough to let UV02 use the first 6 hours of the night to observe one of their transits.  They had a lot of fun and did a great job and now Mary Brewer is now trained. I...I have to admit...we mounted the eyepiece and for the first hour of the night and gazed at the moon. It was training!! The trainees demanded we do so.
Engineering consisted of:
restarting the hub and tcc
Restarting axis controllers
Zeroing the rotator (-0.020)
Collimation - no changes done
throughput and skyflats with ARCTIC
No problems tonight but a lot of fun!
                    ------- 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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 20:04 arctic   540( 1220) 242  70  11.5 12.4 12.5 11.9 11.2   sdss-g  0.87
 02:01 shack   500( 1594) 112  61   9.9  9.7 10.2  9.6  9.7   --  1.00
 02:42 arctic   524( 1081) -49  58  10.6  9.9 10.3  9.8 10.7   sdss-i  0.76
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    53    22     15    77  (ENE)    473 mstly cldy   none
     17:00    54    31      2   319   (NW)    472  ptly cldy   none
     18:00    57    31      1   260    (W)    455  ptly cldy   none
     19:00    58    31      3   263    (W)    528  ptly cldy   none
     20:00    53    31      5    89    (E)    508 mstly clr    none
     21:00    53    32     10   132   (SE)    566    clear     none
     22:00    53    28      6   155  (SSE)    673 mstly clr    none
     23:00    50    29     11   114  (ESE)    636    clear     none
     00:00    49    28      9    86    (E)    621    clear     none
     01:00    51    27      1   153  (SSE)    635 mstly clr    none
     02:00    53    27      5   204  (SSW)    648    clear     none
     03:00    50    27      8   195  (SSW)    657    clear     none
     04:00    51    29      9   206  (SSW)    595    clear     none
     05:00    51    25      9   187    (S)    628    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