MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2005 Jul 01

Observer(s): J. Thorstensen, H. Sheets, A. Kapusta
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: Mark III + Templeton CCD

Worked for 7 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 10 PM until 3 AM.
   Beg: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

First night of spectroscopy on 1.3 m.  The DTI is hooked up to
post-process the signal from the Seitzer guider; this greatly
increases visibility of faint objects, but the guide TV image
tube is way past its prime, with a big dead spot in the middle 
from many years of centered guide stars.

Weather was partly cloudy all night, with some periods of heavy
cloud and other periods nearly clear.  Seeing very hard to 
judge because the slit-viewing TV has a very small image
scale, so figures below are basically a guess.

Small note -- the nice little chart-reading lamp at the 
console for reading guide stars has come really loose.  Also,
it'd help us old guys if the TCS monitor out in the dome were
not so high up -- I have to crane my neck way back to see it 
with my bifocals.

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Submitted on 2005 Jul 2 [23:42:02]
NOTE: This report replaces the previous 1.3m telescope
      observing report for 2005 Jul 01