MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2004 May 03

Observer(s): eve armstrong
Institution(s): columbia

Instrument: templeton/direct

Worked for 9.5 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.6 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Clear, cooperative night.  Got two long time series: 
AM CVn and V533Her.



That's a fitful, sprightly business AM CVn's up there spinning.
I hope this light curve aids the quest for P-orbital pinning.

A signal 'round one-thousand-twenty-eight, there can you tell?
Is the disk a-retrograding in the secondary's spell?

D_P-apsidal's small -- so is the disk then largely stable?
But P-nodal implies wobble -- one more unknown on the table.

Well, no more stats tonight - it's nearing bedtime on this ridge.
And _my_ mass transfer's governed by the barren kitchen fridge.



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Submitted on 2004 May 4 [4:51:42]