MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2004 May 20

Observer(s): armstrong, mice, spiders, lady-bugs, and a caterpillar
Institution(s): columbia

Instrument: templeton/direct

Worked for 9 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.8 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.8 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.6 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Anew, 
A hue
Of living blue
  Will dawn in two more hours.

It glows
And grows
To preface those
  More brilliant, daylight powers.

Sun peaks
In streaks,
And slyly leaks
  Before it starts its arc.

Its gold
Embold-
Ens.  Floods the old
  And quickly staling dark.

So Joe,
It's O-
Ver, you should know. 
  Ol' Cygnus went to laze.

But first
It versed
Its well-rehearsed
  Performance of malaise.

That is,
Its biz
Sure ain't a-whizz-
  Ing anything exciting.

Its curve's
Reserved
And lacks all verve
  (I'm putting this in writing?!)

I hope
The scope
Of F.T.* ropes
  In insight from that ditty.

By then,
My friend,
I'm gone (amen)
  -- En route to New York City!!


* = Fourier Transform

 (eve armstrong)

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Submitted on 2004 May 21 [2:48:00]