MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2006 May 18

Observer(s): Sebastien Lepine
Institution(s): AMNH

Instrument: Direct + Echelle

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 1.3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 0.8 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   End: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

Clear night though a little windy at first (15-20 mph). I found
that closing the garage door improved the seeing a bit (from
1.3arcsec to 1.1arcsec) by reducing telescope shaking. The seeing
remained pretty good aftewards. I did 8 more parallax targets 
and SN2006X again.

Around 8:00PM, I had trouble with the camera electronics again,
with bizarre error messages on CCDCOM. A hardware reset and power 
supply recycling didn't fix it. After discussion with Bob, I 
recycled the fiber optics interface as well, and everything
went OK aftewards.

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Submitted on 2006 May 19 [5:36:25]