MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2002 May 21

Observer(s): Vestergaard
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 8 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Weather is most likely photometric.
The CCDS head electronics behaved.
The only problems I encountered were bad seeing most of  the
night due to temperature dropping below mirror temperature.
At 4:15am the telescope started jumping forth and back in
E-W direction for 1 minute or so. It then went away. I have
seen this before when it's cold (somewhat colder than 6C
though!) My impression is there is no fix.

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Submitted on 2002 May 22 [5:10:13]