MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2005 Jun 16

Observer(s): McGreer
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: TIFKAM

Worked for 8 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 0.8 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 0.9 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

During a script that dithers the telescope, Prospero and XMIS
had problems communicating and XMIS hung.  Then XTCS no longer
functioned.  Bob walked me through a restart and everything
was fine.

Seeing was quite good.  More IR imaging of AGN, spectra of a
pulsar candidate, and image of galactic plane source.

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Submitted on 2005 Jun 17 [5:08:14]