YALO Telescope Observer's Report for 2000 Oct 14

Observer: Kathy Vivas
Observed all night from 23:45 to 9:30 UTC.
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 23:00 until 04:00.
   Beg: Seeing 1.6 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm, Haze, then clear
   End: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate

Observing Summary:

The night began with patchy clouds over all sky, specially to the 
East. It was basically clear after midnight. 
In the last three days, there has been  a moderate wind coming from 
the north in the last part of the night. Unfortunately, all
objects in the program at that hour are in the north. The problem is 
that the guiding is difficult to do because the stars move a lot in the 
TV screen. Tonight the guiding wasn't good for 2mass0559  and
RR8398C (images have some elongation in the N-S direction).
Otherwise, all program was done.
There was one crash in the middle of the observation
of Q2138-431. I interrupted the script and took the remaining
exposures after the recovery.

Aql X-1: R=0.75
         V=1.88
         R=0.81 

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Submitted by Kathy Vivas on 2000 Oct 15 [5:44:39]