MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2006 Aug 22

Observer(s): S. Lepine
Institution(s): AMNH

Instrument: Mark III spectrograph

Worked for 3 hours (last half of the night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Rain from 7 until 9.
   Beg: Overcast, Winds Light & Variable, thunderstorm, rain
   Mid: Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

I became one of the few people to have used both the 2.4m 
and 1.3m in the same night (though not at the same time).
The sky cleared around 2:00am. Having completed all the 
end-of-night targets for the 2.4m parallax run, I decided to 
start the spectroscopic program on the 1.3m right away. Observed
until sunrise, caught 14 targets.

Incidentally, I tried to rotate the instrument 90 degrees but 
found out this would be impossible without ripping a few cables.
Being able to orient the slit E-W, though, would be useful to 
complete the program.

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Submitted on 2006 Aug 23 [5:50:39]