APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M

                                 OBSERVING LOG
                           Saturday February 27, 2010

                                  (MJD 55255)

---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===---

Viktor Malanushenko
Steph Snedden
Kaike Pan (afternoon)

Jim Gunn (PU)
Connie Rockosi (UCO)

---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===---

MARVELS Science!

---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===---

Thick clouds all night. Jim and Connie continued spectro camera work. Craig 
issued hundreds of biases, presumably to tickle the dropped pixel problem.

Replaced bad flat field lamp. Left the burned out bulb on Wendell's desk.

No science data, unfortunately.

Telescope left at zenith for Jim and Connie with fill line extensions hooked up.

---=== OBSERVING LOG ===---

Afternoon:
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  All actors, systems, and the telescope were checked. No problem to report. 
Since the weather does not look good in the evening,  and forecasting and 
satellite images both indicates that weather will be bad for at least the 
first half tonigh. We let Connie continue her test to check Boss spectra 
line-dropping issue. So no fiducial crossing check, no boss dark, no gcamera 
dark this evening.
  Compressed 20 mjd (54436-54455) in /data/mcptpm. 
  Put on LN2 fill line extensions so Connie cann work without having to stop 
to force a fill.
   
Night:
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  Replaced burned out flat field lamp from the SW corner of the telescope 
(above sp1). Note that the Holloman baffle is only held in by one screw, and 
the second screw appears to be misaligned. The one screw is secure, though, 
and it appears we've been operating this way for some time. 

At this point, we waited on clouds while Connie and Jim continued working on 
the spectrograph camera electronics.

07:05Z - Still cloudy, but Jim & Connie's work was done for the night, so we 
started ventilation, optimistically.

Craig took hundreds of biases after the camera work was done.

We had some hope that the clouds would dissipate, but they never did.

11:55Z - Ventilation off. Doors closed.
endNight finished.

---=== SPECTROSCOPY DATA SUMMARY ===---

Summary Checked (y/n):
QA Procedures Done (y/n):

  UT    Exp   Time  flavor     comment       (S/N)^2 totals
========================================== b1   r1   b2   r2

---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE I ===---

Time Instrument     Az              Alt             Rot         Scale
                  pos   offset    pos   offset    pos   offset
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---=== TELESCOPE OFFSETS AND SCALE II ===---

---=== FOCUS LOG ===---

                      setmir piston                  Temp   Wind
Time     Inst    scale    M1    M2   Foc   Az   Alt   (C) MPH  Dir  filt  fwhm
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---=== WEATHER LOG ===---

                             Wind
      Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH   Direction    Dust  DIMM   Sky

     22:35Z    41     7     18   226  (SW)     501     -    cloudy
     23:08Z    40     3     11   218  (SW)     498     -    '
     23:41Z    40     2     16   192  (SSW)    532     -    '
     00:14Z    39     5     16   205  (SSW)    557     -    '
     00:47Z    38     7     16   186  (S)      561     -    '
     01:20Z    38     8     17   197  (SSW)    588     -    '
     01:53Z    39     8     18   192  (SSW)    564     -    '
     02:09Z    38    10     21   197  (SSW)    616     -    '
     02:42Z    39     8     13   184  (S)      670     -    '
     03:15Z    35    15     17   175  (S)      663     -    '
     03:48Z    35    15     17   151  (SSE)    739     -    '
     04:21Z    34    16     16   160  (SSE)    584     -    '
     04:54Z    34    16     20   161  (SSE)    598     -    '
     05:27Z    34    16     18   154  (SSE)    609     -    '
     06:00Z    33    16     19   161  (SSE)    559     -    '
     06:33Z    36    15     22   174  (S)      617     -    '
     07:06Z    36    15     16   185  (S)      748     -    '
     07:39Z    37    17     24   187  (S)      775     -    '
     08:13Z    36    17     25   195  (SSW)    811     -    '
     08:45Z    37    17     29   182  (S)      952     -    '
     09:18Z    37    15     16   195  (SSW)    944     -    '
     09:51Z    37    16     21   186  (S)      947     -    '
     10:24Z    37    15     23   199  (SSW)    921     -    '
     10:57Z    36    16     22   181  (S)      886     -    '
     11:30Z    35    17     24   185  (S)      876     -    '

---=== TELESCOPE STATUS ===---

07:05Z - Started ventilation.
11:55Z - Ventilation off. Doors closed.

Never opened enclosure.
Telescope left at zenith with cartridge 17 mounted. Spectro autofill enabled 
(with LN2 fill line extensions on).

12:00Z - Spectro LN2 Dewar: 178 lb; 23 psi
---=== SOFTWARE USED ===---

        IOP/SOP: v4_40_0
        Watcher: v2_36_0
        MCP: (unavailable)
        TPM: tpm_v3_5_0
        AstroDa: v15_13_1
        TCC: TCC 2.11.0 2009-06-24
        
        sopActor: v1_0_4
        guiderActor: v1_0_20
        gcameraICC: v1_0_5
        alertsActor: v1_0_3
        platedbActor: v1_0_2
        platedb: v1_0_3


---=== MIRROR NUMBERS ===---

Telescope kept at zenith all night, so no mirror actuator poditions were 
recorded.
---=== PROBLEMS IN DETAIL ===---