MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2004 Sep 08

Observer(s): Zosia Krusberg
Institution(s): Dartmouth College

Instrument: Templeton

Worked for 5 hours (last half of the night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 6pm until 12am.
   Beg: Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.6 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Cloudy until midnight, then it cleared up.  A good chunk of time
was spent focusing and pointing, but was able to get a good 4 
hours of observing in.

The RA drifts continuously to the east.  This prevented me from
making any long exposures, since after about a minute, the stars
began to look like long ellipses.  

Otherwise everything was working fine.

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Submitted on 2004 Sep 9 [6:14:16]