MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2006 Mar 15

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

Instrument: Echelle CCD with 2in FW

Worked for 12 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 0.8 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

Excellent night, with good to excellent seeing throughout and
photometric until just before dawn (the moon was so bright that
any cirrus would have been easily visible).  Still on generator.
The lights all started pulsing at about 2 Hz around 12:50 AM 
and stayed that way for the better part of an hour, but this 
seems to have cured itself.  Gave me a fright, though, I thought
it was probably about to conk out, and on such a good night!  
Indications are power will be fixed sometime today -- the
lines were really trashed by the storm and they're having to 
replace some poles by hand, which takes quite a while.

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Submitted on 2006 Mar 16 [6:47:09]