Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20190712
From: cgray@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 12:12:41 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Friday, July 12, 2019
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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T.Murphy          R.McMillan            APOLLO         20:22   21:20
M.Graham          M.Graham              DIS            21:24   01:02
S.Bhatiani        S.Bhatiani            NICFPS         01:16   05:44
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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AP01/R     20:22   21:22    0    0    0    0   0.0  1.0   0    0
UW07/R     21:22   01:10    0    0    0    0   0.0  3.8   0    0
OU04/R     01:10   05:56    0    0   0.5   0   2.0  2.3   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: C.Gray
There was dome collision during first move of the night. I restated the dome controller and everything was good after that. The night started with just a few clouds that cleared out after midnight and seeing was pretty good all night.  We had issues with NICFPS reading out all 0’s and large negative values.  I have to restart the Hub but the nicfpcs expose init worked on two other counts. This happened at 03:55 - 04:09, 04:17 - 04:32, 04:38, 05:15.  By the third time we were catching the errors much faster so there was essentially no time lost. A PR was sent out.
                    ------- FAILURE LOG -------
PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
    (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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OU04     N       I/U      03:55   04:09   NICFPS reading out incorrectly
OU04     N       I/U      04:17   04:32   NICFPS reading out incorrectly
            ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt  FWHM
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 19:24 APOLLO     600( 2316)  42  30  17.3 19.4 19.3 19.0 17.8   530  1.20
 20:31 dcamera    495( 1217) -124  30  16.4 17.6 17.9 17.1 16.5   --  2.43
 00:25 NICFPS     523( 1723) 207  43  15.6 15.4 16.0 15.6 15.5   MKH  0.88
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    69    46     11   252  (WSW)    513 mstly clr    none
     17:00    69    39      1   151  (SSE)    371 mstly clr    none
     18:00    69    48      3   323   (NW)    682 mstly clr    none
     19:00    66    37      8   107  (ESE)    272 mstly clr    none
     20:00    64    38     10    91    (E)    333    clear     none
     21:00    62    37     13    87    (E)    314 mstly clr    none
     22:00    62    37     13    85    (E)    303 mstly clr    none
     23:00    61    40     14    79    (E)    322 mstly clr    none
     00:00    60    40     13    82    (E)    365 mstly clr    none
     01:00    60    41     12    91    (E)    407 mstly clr    none
     02:00    60    41     13    81    (E)    385    clear     none
     03:00    60    41     11    81    (E)    376    clear     none
     04:00    61    37      9    68  (ENE)    305    clear     none
     05:00    61    37      3    29  (NNE)    313    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