MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2001 Jun 22

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

Instrument: Modspec + Echelle

Worked for 2 hours (last half of the night)
Bad weather most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 8 until 1:30.
   Beg: Overcast, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Overcast, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

Thunderstorms early in the evening eventually died down.  It
became clear enough to warrent opening around 1:30, but clouded
up entirely around 4:00 (20 minutes into twilight).  I obtained
some exploratory spectra of CVs and a few time-critical spectra.
Seeing was actually quite good (as estimated from slit) but 
transparency was highly variable.

No problems with equipment.  As a side note, the telescope
appears to be pointing acceptably well using the model 
derived last year. This is encouraging since the telescope
was recently aluminized and the pointing model might be
expected to have changed.  I have not run a pointing test, 
but it may not be needed.

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Submitted on 2001 Jun 23 [4:47:07]