YALO Telescope Observer's Report for 2000 Oct 9

Observer: Juan Espinoza
Observed all night from 23:50 to  UTC.
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the summary for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.6 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 2.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

Program mostly completed - We had some clouds for the first hour and it remained
clear up until around 05:00 UT when a strip of low clouds crossed
our path for about an hour and a half and than we had clear skies
for the rest of the night.

Target 2mass2223 for A00B0261 (MENDEZ) was not observed because it 
was too close to the moon and therefore impossible to find the only 
faint guide star that is good for this target.

Lisbon target J0111-1357 was observed in the bad part of the chip.
One thing to notice about this target is that I began observing it with 
the object galaxy falling on the very middle part of the CCD chip
and Kathy suggested that it would be better to observe it on the
bad part completely, wich made a lot of sense, and so we did.

A0620 was observed with only the first file for there was no 
more time left to observe it, as the night ended.

Magnitude for Aql X-1:

R = 1.17
V = 1.81
R = 0.81 around 23:30 LST

Kathy V. is ready to begin David's run and i'm  confident that
she will do the nightly Queue even with the little Yalo training she
has gotten.

Until next week
juan

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Submitted by Juan Espinoza on 2000 Oct 10 [5:27:12]