MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2003 Sep 29

Observer(s): Bentz
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: Templeton

Worked for 1 hours (part of the night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

The guider stopped functioning correctly after 15 minutes of 
actual data observations.  The telescope kept drifting east, so
that within 60 seconds the guide star had drifted out of the 
guider box, even though the guider screen was updating every 
two seconds and I could hear the telescope clicking as if it
was adjusting itself.  After a conversation with Bob about it,
we figured a relay had probably gone bad in the guider system.
As I'm imaging host galaxies of AGN, I need to take 5-15 
minute exposures, so observing without a guider is just not 
feasible.  I managed to get all my targets before the end of 
last night, so even though I couldn't get any data today, I'm 
still ok.  

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Submitted on 2003 Sep 29 [23:29:41]