MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2005 May 15

Observer(s): patterson, armstrong
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 1.5 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.7 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

At long last, we are elated to report: Absolutely Nothing.

Ran on 13 40 +49 all night, with no haunts (besides some harmless
cirrus and ladybugs.)

The poem is one day late:


Wrath to the Southern Sky, During the End of the Second Week of May, 2005


   Minus-three being our line of scrimmage,
   There's black pox marks all over our image.
   They're a'ploppin' upon  
   The south star field we're on,
   And resulting in patches of dimmage.*

   In the meantime, we're dealing with Jupiter,
   Whose reflections aren't making our view better.
   Hmm .. now, is there a link?
   Perhaps 'bout this we'd think,
   If night's length hadn't rendered us stupider.


   *Dimmage: n.  The inevitable and often unfortunate result 
                 of an act of dimming.

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Submitted on 2005 May 16 [1:58:25]