MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2006 Aug 23

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

Instrument: MkIII spectrograph

Worked for 4 hours (off and on through the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   Mid: Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   End: Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

A rocky night. Light rain at the very beginning. All
cleared up around 9:30pm with humidity down to safe level.
Observed from 10PM to midnight, then clouds came back.
All cleared up again around 2:30AM, observed from 3:00AM
to 4:30AM when I had to shut down again because of
high humidity. All in all took spectra of 14 targets.

I managed to figure out how to rotate the instrument 90 degrees
by rearranging a few cables. All is well.

For a few pointings at larger HA, I couldn't  set  the 
telescope in Declination. Had to do targets closer to the
meridian.

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Submitted on 2006 Aug 24 [5:40:41]