MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2006 May 24

Observer(s): armstrong, piscionere, shulman
Institution(s): columbia

Instrument: templeton/direct

Worked for 8.5 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, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

A couple time series on CV's: SDSS 1507+52 and DQ Her, and some 
long exposures on an M-giant long-period CV that *might* be the 
optical counterpart to the transient pulsar XTE J1829-098.
Perfect night.


An M-giant star says hello
With R-mag twenty-one or below.
It'd be great if we knew
What it looked like in blue;
Blue'd be way way too faint for us, though.

That's too bad, for you might be aware
That a pulsar lies also near there.
Now, are they entwined?
That would be a real find,
For M-giant XB's are quite rare.

Blue info'd be good for this reason:
It might tell us of CO accretion.
Alas, no one's gaining
By my trite complaining.
So I'll stop and await night's completion.

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Submitted on 2006 May 25 [4:12:51]