MDM Trouble Report for 2004 Jun 30

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): holly sheets (dartmouth college)
Instrument: mark II + templeton

Problem(s) Encountered:
The guider seemed to have trouble holding east/west,
particularly when looking south.  The winds were strong, out 
of the south, so i suspect that's the problem.  The guider 
would well overcorrect, upwards of 3 to 5 in dy, and then
oscillate around the position it was supposed to hold.

The relays make a stuttering sound before the telescope actually
begins to slew north, but once it's moving, it sounds fine.

The guide probe was blocking part of the field.  It should have
been in the  slit  position, as I know we told it to go there 
when we started spectra.  I tried this menu option again, after 
noticing at the start of the night that a bright start kept 
fading awfully near the center of the screen.  It had no effect.
Then I moved to 'origin', back to 'slit', and it seemed fine.
The rest of the night, I had much less trouble with the 
moonlight than previously.  The brightness was much more uniform
instead of the weird reflections I saw before.

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Submitted on 2004 Jul 1 [4:57:02]