YALO Telescope Observer's Report for 2000 Jun 30

Observer: Juan Espinoza
Observed for only a few hours from 0250 to 0940 UTC.
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the summary for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable, thick cirrus
   Mid: Seeing 1.8 arcsec, Overcast, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1.8 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable, thick cirrus

Observing Summary:

Hello -

What a murphy night...

As soon as I finished taking the first focus frames, we had a
power outage at around 2250-UT that halted all telescopes
on the mountain except the 4m.  The main reason beeing that
all domes were not operational.  Something to do with the UPS.

The problem was solved at 0220-UT but I didn't start until
about half of an hour later because of a dome reset button
that needed to be pushed... so I had to wait for that...
I know what button it is now.....

If that wasn't bad enough, Once we started observing, clouds
moved in from the South-west and remained above until around
0600-UT (all of this is a real pity because we had really clear
skies for the first three or so hours).

Most Ohio targets were observed in I band only in order to get
the most amount of targets done.

Dr Nick Suntzeff's target partially observed -- Clouds moved in
at around half of the program (end of the night).

XTE  :  20.22 (observed only once to fit the most 
		targets due to weather and
		technical problems).
Aql  :   3.43 *******
4u   :  Not observed (out of limits)

Cheers

------------------------------

Submitted by Juan Espinoza on 2000 Jul 1 [6:17:38]