MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2003 Jun 16

Observer(s): Thorstensen
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: Echelle direct 

Worked for 9 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1. arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

A very nice night, clear, with OK but not great seeing.  
CCD parallax pictures; various ID and reconaissance work on
cataclysmic variables.

At one point early in the evening, CCDcom could not communicate
with the CCD controller.  I power-cycled the CCD controllers
(probably a mistake), hit the reset button, and it came back. 
Lost maybe 15 minutes.

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Submitted on 2003 Jun 17 [5:30:52]