MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2002 Nov 16

Observer(s): Zosia Krusberg
Institution(s): Dartmouth College

Instrument: Echelle

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

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing >2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing >2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing <1.1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Bob came by early in the evening to fix the noise problem that's
been going on, so the night was silent.  Seeing was very bad until
right before 1:00 - perhaps due to warm air coming in and the dome
temperature increasing by 6 degrees during the evening - when 
it all of a sudden went down to about 1 .0, and remained thereabouts 
or lower for the rest of the night.

A very productive second half of the night.

On a couple of occasions throughout the night, the epoch readout
on the tcs would display some preposterous number, like 3, and
move accordingly.  However, re-sending the coordinates made it 
regain its senses.

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Submitted on 2002 Nov 17 [7:11:40]