Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20190918
From: dembicky@apo.nmsu.edu
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 13:03:24 +0000 (UTC)
                      Apache Point Observatory
                      3.5m Telescope Night Log
                      Wednesday, September 18, 2019
                                                           ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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G.Stringfellow    G.Stringfellow        TSPEC          20:35   22:24
J.Roberts         J.Roberts             ARCTIC         22:34   03:35
B.Bolin           B.Bolin, C.Lisse      NICFPS         03:45   07:20
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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CU10/R     19:14   22:20   1.3   0    0    0   1.3  0.5   0    0
CU01/R     22:20   03:40    0    0    0    0   0.0  5.3   0    0
DD01/R     03:40   06:41    0    0    0    0   0.0  3.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: J.Dembicky
My first test slew in alt/az aborted with a motion error.  The rotator had moved fine earlier in my tests. I re-init the axis, did a few very small slews and then larger ones and all seemed better.
My first nicfps image was bad (black/white blocks), an init fixed the problem.
2019-09-19 02:12:31 .gmech.1 1 gmech w gmechConnState='Failed',"[Failure instance: Traceback (failure with no frames): : Connection to the other side was lost in a non-clean fashion.]"
We had to do another nicfps init just at the start of observations due to the same issue I had seen at the start of the night.  It was fine when I focused a few minutes prior.  It happened during a slew to a std.
We had another camera dropout at around 11:37UT which required another reset.
                    ------- 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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 20:32 tcamera    325( 1167) 124  74  15.8 18.0 17.5 17.4 16.2   Ks  1.35
 22:40 arctic   352( 1055) 216  41  15.6 15.7 15.9 15.1 15.1   SDSS_g  1.10
 22:43 NA2gdr  3439(37439) 216  40  15.9 15.6 15.8 15.1 15.2   R  1.00
 03:55 NICFPS     403( 1349) 248  51  14.0 13.6 14.2 13.4 13.7   J  0.65
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    67    38      9   254  (WSW)    132    clear     none
     17:00    69    40     13   269    (W)    171    clear     none
     18:00    66    39      8   286  (WNW)    120 mstly clr    none
     19:00    61    38      5   267    (W)    124 mstly cldy   none
     20:00    59    38      2   251  (WSW)    108 mstly cldy   none
     21:00    60    36      4   263    (W)    105  ptly cldy   none
     22:00    60    36      1   291  (WNW)    114  ptly cldy   none
     23:00    60    36      3   212  (SSW)     98 mstly cldy   none
     00:00    60    37      6   194  (SSW)     97 mstly cldy   none
     01:00    60    37      4   247  (WSW)     87 mstly cldy   none
     02:00    59    37      4   189    (S)    123 mstly cldy   none
     03:00    59    37      3   199  (SSW)    151  ptly cldy   none
     04:00    58    38      3   210  (SSW)    122 mstly clr    none
     05:00    55    38      7   236   (SW)    163 mstly clr    none
     06:00    57    39      4   259    (W)    171  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