YALO Nightly Observing Report for 1999 Dec 15

Observer: Juan Espinoza
Observed all night from 0030 to 0830 UTC.
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the summary for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:


Hello;
	
	Program completed with lots of difficulties:

	1) Although not too important, I had some trouble with the
	   brightness dial in the guiding camera (it stoped working). 
	   but it was soon fixed by one of the electronics guys.
	   Or better said, temporarily replaced by one that belongs to
	   the 60 in. Telescope.  (thank you Esteban).

	2) Crash in IR during observations for CHILE_PONT with the
	   .obs Script  fgmonij.obs from the wich I recovered in the
	   usual manner except this  time I fail to notice that the order
	   of the filing number secuence got reseted to ir991215.0001.fits
	   and not to what it should have been (ir991215.0173.fits).  I notice
	this later on when I started the object star for Portugal and it sore of 
	threw things out of order as far as keeping track of what is what.

	Not only that, but for some reason it renamed and changed
	the owner code and object name for some of the targets for
	CHILE_PONT (this is the first time this happens to me).  What is 
	most weird is that it fixed itself at some time.  Can not tell when.

	In all, all targets were observed even though the logs show
	nothing but a mess during this period.
	
	3) And most important;  the dat drive has been failing 
	   constantly and it is getting very difficult to keep up
	   with space in the disk because it takes too long to record
	   data, thus becoming very dangerous as far as taking data
	   in the upcoming days.  Sorry to be the one to bring
	   this burden of worrying from such a distance but all of 
	   you guys should know.  We need a drive fast and we have
	none in thhe mountain to spare.

	Best regards,

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Submitted by Juan Espinoza on 1999 Dec 16 [3:40:15]