MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2000 Nov 13

Observer(s): Schroeder
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 12 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 6 pm until 3 am.
   Beg: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Moderate
   End: Seeing 1.0 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

High clouds interfered with a few observations.

The pointing of the telescope continues to be off by a few 
arcminutes and is large enough that normally the object you 
are trying to acquire is outside of the field of view of the 
guider camera once centered, let alone the acquisition camera.

Normally, at least for the objects I'm studying, the error puts
the targets off the screen in the southwest direction.

I have written four pages for future observers:

1) A Nightly Start-up procedure
2) A Home Telescope procedure
3) A Computer Start-up procedure
4) A Morning Shut-Down procedure

The write-ups for these were either non-existent or out-of-
date. I can e-mail the documents for those interested
in using them. Contact me at jps @ astro.columbia.edu.

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Submitted on 2008 Nov 14 [6:44:20]