MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2001 Nov 17

Observer(s): J. Pinkney and M. Aller
Institution(s): University of Michigan

Instrument: Modspec with Templeton

Worked for 12.5 hours (all night)
Conditions were Mixed 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 1 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

We obtained spectra of 6 galaxies over the course of the
night. There were patchy cirrus clouds throughout the night,
but they did not affect our observing until near dawn. The
sky remained clear enough for us to have excellent viewing
of the Leonid meteor showers, as well. 
Near dawn we had a problem with the rotator encoders which
suddenly glitched and started reading approximately -650
instead of 35.2. We attempted to rotate back to 0.
using the tape markers and then reset the encoder
in an attempt to fix this problem.  That worked.

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Submitted on 2001 Nov 18 [6:43:13]