MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2008 Nov 23

Observer(s): S. Lepine, E. Gaidos
Institution(s): AMNH, U. Hawaii

Instrument: MkIII spectrograph + Nellie

Worked for 13 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 2.0 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 2.5 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Good night for spectroscopy, with some thin cirrus clouds
after dusk and just before dawn. Again we broke our record
for the most science targets observed in one night, with
95 targets total.

We have had some trouble setting the telescope in DEC with
the paddle (the real one, not the virtual one). Sometimes 
the telescope would not move. It would move with the virtual
paddle but only for large offsets (>30 arcsec). We found
that setting in RA would help unfreeze the DEC motion.


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Submitted on 2008 Nov 24 [7:10:12]