MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2021 Oct 27

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

Instrument: modspec+echelle

Worked for 12 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   End: Seeing var. arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate

Observing Summary:

Another fine clear night, but with somewhat more wind and seeing
not quite as steady as last night.  Humidity was notably low.
Later in the evening I was looking at a target low in the 
southeast -- airmass greater than 2 -- and had some epically
terrible seeing, but it improved pretty quickly.  Telescope shake
was, oddly, not much of an issue anywhere.  Very productive
scientifically -- two new CV orbital periods.

I did experience one glitch, which cost me no time.  At some 
point I used the caps lock key, and somehow the workstation got
stuck in caps lock, no matter what I did.  Fortunately I wasn't
typing on it much, and could work around using the shift key
to type lowercase characters when needed.  This also happened to 
Elisabeth Newton and I when I was helping her get started,
but now I don't remember how we cured it!  After I closing I 
tried disconnecting and reconnecting the VNC, but it that
didn't fix it.

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Submitted on 2021 Oct 28 [6:42:40]