MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2010 Mar 26

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

Instrument: echelle ccd direct + buckeye FW

Worked for 11 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 Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 1+ arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   End: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate

Observing Summary:


A very nice night, photometric with decent seeing.  A bit
breezy but not enough to cause any problems.  The transparency
at sunset was kind of mediocre -- looked like a little bit
of dust had been kicked up by the breeze -- but nothing out
of the ordinary.  Some targets wiped out by bright moon.
Only one minor telescope glitch, didn't complete set and 
drifted until I stopped it; and one minor episode of the 
wandering dome.  No time lost.  

I used JSkyCalc24mGS to move the guide probe and send coords
to the telescope, and it worked very nicely!  It's much more
convenient and less error-prone than typing in guide coords
by hand.

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Submitted on 2010 Mar 27 [6:28:02]