MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2005 Jul 08

Observer(s): chris peters
Institution(s): dartmouth college

Instrument: Mark III + Templeton

Worked for 9 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

another great night of observing.
one slight problem: the telescope stopped guiding during one 
portion of the night; i heard the guider computer start 
beeping (meaning that it wasn't finding the guide star anymore), 
and so i tried to move it back to within the box on the screen 
and the telescope would not respond to simply pressing the 
south or north buttons (but did work when used with the set 
button). after i ended that exposure, i moved the scope with the 
set button (to somewhat work out the  kinks ), and that seemed 
to fix the issue. the rest of the night it worked fine.

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Submitted on 2005 Jul 9 [5:07:27]