MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2009 Mar 24

Observer(s): armstrong
Institution(s): columbia

Instrument: templeton/direct

Worked for 7.5 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Seeing 1 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Patchy clouds all night, but got a long time series on a bright cv 
that withstood the murk.  Great seeing!

At start of night, telescope briefly repeated the previously-reported
sudden slewing.  At RA=12:36 DEC=37:33; HA=-4:47; LST=07:44, as I
hit  start  to guide on a star, the telescope suddenly jumped about
an arcminute South.  It did so again about 2 minutes later.  So I gave
up an attempt to focus and just started the time series.  The glitch 
did not happen again.

Am closing early due to some health issues; there's nothing wrong
with the instrument.

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Submitted on 2009 Mar 25 [1:54:41]