MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2002 Jun 02

Observer(s): hammell
Institution(s): dartmouth

Instrument: tifkam

Worked for 1 hours (part of the night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

conditions looked really nice, but I couldn't get better than 2 arcsecond seeing on focus frames. 
probably due to chip temp--it was at 5.9 ohms for the past two days then jumped to 6.2 ohms by this afternoon. 
Also, when I started the autoguider program, it complained that no camera was attached.  I went out and 
looked to make sure all the cables were connected to the autoguider camera, but didn't notice anything amiss. 
so, gave up after focus frames and essentially made no observations. 
leaving tomorrow anyway. 

ps. prefilter wheel has started to report errors when moved.
Like the filter wheel, you have to move it out in one direction and then come back.

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Submitted on 2002 Jun 2 [22:14:06]