MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2001 May 06

Observer(s): Tavarez
Institution(s): University of Michigan

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 2 hours (first half of the night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the summary for details.

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

Observing Summary:

Some cirrus clouds visible, during first few hours of night.
Otherwise a good nite.

Problems with the Guiding.  I fiddled with the guide rates
and eventually was able to guide for a short time before 
the star drifted from the guide box.  Perhaps some key parameters 
were reset when the computers came back up from the power outage
 this afternoon. 

Obs: Halpha rotation curves

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Submitted on 2001 May 7 [1:02:39]