MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2008 Mar 10

Observer(s): Kunder
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: Echelle

Worked for 11 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.7 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

Great night of observing.  Good seeing, except for at the very beginning of the night
when their were light clouds.  CCDCOM crashed 8 times, and almost all of those 
crashes occured at the beginning of the night.  I think that using iraf while the ccd is
reading out an image causes ccdcom to crash.  After I stopped doing  imexam  on 
my images while the image was reading out, I had no crashes.  

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Submitted on 2008 Mar 11 [6:30:16]