MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2009 Mar 09

Observer(s): John Thorstensen
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: Templeton direct

Worked for 4 hours (first half of the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 10PM until end.
   Beg: Seeing 1.8 arcsec, Clear, Winds High
   Mid: Seeing 2 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Moderate
   End: Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:


Time in parallel with the 2.4m.  The night started well, but
cirrus moved in after a couple of hours, and it got heavier
as time went on. I couldn't find guide stars when I switched
targets around 1 AM, so I closed.   

The HA drive did start chattering when I turned on the power, but
I stopped it fairly quickly.

The guide star selector program invoked by skycalc doesn't seem 
to work for the 1.3m TCS -- it runs, but doesn't correspond to
reality.  In starting to diagnose this I looked at the 1.3m 
manual on the web, and I think that the diagram of the 
field of regard of the MIS on the web-based 1.3 manual may be
for the 2.4m system.  But at this point I'm so tired I may have
it wrong!

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Submitted on 2009 Mar 10 [5:48:59]