MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2009 Apr 30

Observer(s): Sebastien Lepine
Institution(s): AMNH

Instrument: MkIII + Nellie

Worked for 10 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Good observing conditions but with fairly poor seeing. 
Got spectra for 50 more nearby M dwarfs; including one
for Barnard's star, interestingly.


Some minor glitches:

1) McGraw became unresponsive around 9:00pm. Required a hard reboot.

2) As in previous night, jerky motion in Declination while guiding.



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Submitted on 2009 May 1 [5:19:34]