MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2002 Feb 08

Observer(s): Jason Pinkney
Institution(s): U. Michigan

Instrument: Echelle CCD

Worked for 9 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 2.0 arcsec, Clear, Winds High

Observing Summary:

A nice, clear night with occasional seeing around 1.0 .
The wind picked up to 20-30 MPH around 4:40 AM.

I imaged several nearby galaxies for our supermassive
black hole programs.  Most galaxies are clumped around
12 hrs, unfortunately.

The problem I had was recovering from a badly timed ctrl-C
during the exposure readout.  I reset the CCD power supply,
but couldn't get  sf  to work in CCDCOM. Finally, it worked
when I did  dl  followed by sf.

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Submitted on 2002 Feb 9 [6:49:00]