MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2002 Aug 31

Observer(s): R. Fesen
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 2 hours (first half of the night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 1 am until 5 am.
   Beg: Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

Mostly cloudy all night. Got two hours in at 11 pm. Seeing
was terrible at first but snapped into subarc in a matter of
minutes as the sky cleared off.
Hooked up the DTI to the ISIT camera off the CCDS. Now it
works fine. Can now see the slit against the sky
and stars down to around 18th mag. This ought to be the standard
way to observe with CCDS. Took all of 2 minutes to set-up.


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Submitted on 2002 Sep 1 [15:08:08]