MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2001 Jun 27

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

Instrument: modspec+echelle

Worked for 9 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 0.8 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

A nice night, with good-to-excellent seeing, but with light to
moderate cirrus around essentially all night.  Though it sure
seemed to go away when the moon went down :-).

I figured since there were no storms anywhere I'd risk going on
commercial power.  Silly me!  Around 0:55 MST the power dropped
out for the usual 2 seconds, enough to kill everything.  Again
nothing broke, and I was back on in 22 minutes.  Practice makes
perfect!  Other than that, the only thing to gripe about is the
dome; it's been accumulating errors through the night.

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Submitted on 2001 Jun 28 [5:52:10]