MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2011 May 05

Observer(s): S. Lepine
Institution(s): AMNH

Instrument: MkIII + Wilbur

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

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.0 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 1.0 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1.0 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

Could not use the guider tonight. After doing a proper 
focus of the spectrograph and telescope, I realized 
I could not bring the guider camera to focus. The focal
plane seems to be out of range in the current setup
(MkIII).

Guided manually all night instead. Fortunately all exposures
were short and the tracking was excellent most of the time, 
so there were only minor corrections to make. This required 
a bit more vigilance however. Guider would be useful for longer
exposures however.

Night was busy in any case, with 45 targets observed.


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Submitted on 2011 May 6 [5:36:04]