MDM Trouble Report for 2004 Nov 19

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Sheets (Dartmouth)
Instrument: Mark III + Templeton

Problem(s) Encountered:
I noticed early in the night that sometimes an odd bright patch 
would occur in the field after I took a comparison and moved the
mirror back out.  Not sure if this was due to the gain not 
fading down before the lamps came on, or if it was something 
with the finder mirror.  Moving the mirror back in, then out 
again seemed to work for a time.  At the end of the night, 
about 6:10am, when I tried to find a flux standard, I noticed 
the large, bright spot like I saw last June, and as I set to the
west, I saw what looked like a bright double star move into the 
field.  But as I continued to set west, one star moved up the 
screen, and the other moved down the screen, until the lower one
moved off screen.  The other  star  vanished then as well.

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Submitted on 2004 Nov 19 [6:40:15]