MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2003 Apr 10

Observer(s): Garmany, Bio2 students
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: direct + Nellie

Worked for 8 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 2.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 2.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 2.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

At the start of the night we found the TCS monitor (Dell)
had crashed at 7:30 that morning. Bob talked us through 
the reboot. Subsequently it took a while to sync the telescope 
first on the zenith , then a star. For a number of tries, the
xtcs3 window would not allow us to enter the epoch along with
 RA and dec. Again, a call to Bob resulted in his trying it from
 his end which got it working.

Uneventful observing until 3 PM when we encountered the problem 
described by the previous observers: the guide star repeatedly
 drifted out of the box (telescope going north) Location was 
HA +1 h, Dec +2 deg. When we moved to another part of the sky the auto
guider worked fine.

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Submitted on 2003 Apr 11 [4:40:01]