MDM Trouble Report for 2001 Apr 27

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Maritza Tavarez (University of Michigan)
Instrument: CCD Direct - Echelle

Problem(s) Encountered:
I was observing standard fields along the celestial equator, 
when I noticed that the stars were trailing.  This occurred 
even though I was using the autoguider for exposures longer 
than 20 seconds.  At first I thought it was the focus.  However,
no matter how many times I tried to find the best focus, the 
stellar radial profiles always had some scatter.  Paying 
closer attention to the images I noticed that the stars were 
distorted along the North South direction.  To confirm my suspicion
I checked the RA/DEC from the tcs console, and sure enough the 
telescope was not at the same position I had pointed to before
starting the autoguider. 

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Submitted on 2001 Apr 27 [4:51:31]