MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2004 Jan 11

Observer(s): Tuttle, Armstrong
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: Templeton/Direct

Worked for 10 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.8 arcsec, Overcast, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing  1.8 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

The start of the night was dreadful.  Around about midnight
it cleared up and only got better. Went straight through to
sunrise. Problem with guider monitor getting weirder & worse.
Ditto west button on control room hand paddle.

'Progress'


Well, David, your new field 
To frightful luck did yield.

And Jules, your HETE site 
Shows no new hope tonight.

And Joe, your precious star
Is getting mauled afar.

The telescope ain't broke
The guider didn't croak
'Tis clouds that play the 
joke.
Think I'll go have a coke...

The cokes, I see, are gone.
So no caffeine til dawn.
And I already yawn
And yawn and yawn and yawn.

Been fourteen nights up here.
It hasn't much been clear. 
Am feeling rather queer ...
Insanity is near?


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Submitted on 2004 Jan 12 [15:34:38]