MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2012 Dec 12

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

Instrument: Modspec + echelle CCD

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

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1+ arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 2 arcsec, Clear, Winds High
   End: Seeing 2+ arcsec, Clear, Winds High

Observing Summary:

Clear night, but with gradually increasing wind and deteriorating
seeing in front of a storm due to arrive tomorrow night. The 
telescope shakes quite a bit when pointed toward the 
wind, of course.

Much smoother tonight since everything was set up.  Also, I 
found the problem with the JSkyCalc13mGS program (my own doing 
it turned out) so I used it for most of the telescope-handling 
through the night, and it worked very nicely.  

At one point I tracked into the west limit and was flummoxed for
a little bit trying to get the telescope out of it.  This and 
other things need to be documented better, a task I may
undertake tomorrow night when the bad weather comes. 

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Submitted on 2012 Dec 13 [7:05:30]