MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2001 Sep 29

Observer(s): Eilat Glikman, Suvi Gezari
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: TIFKAM

Worked for 8 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Overcast, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.6  arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

There were dense clouds at the start of the night.  We began observing
around 10:30 pm when the clouds thinned out but there was cirrus 
persistent throughout the night, making it difficult to get a guide 
star.  The tifkam hardware failed when we began using it.  The 
prospero window crashed and when we started it up the wc, ic, and 
cb were down.  We had to restart the computers and reinitialize 
everything.  After that, all worked quite well.


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Submitted on 2001 Sep 30 [5:53:21]