From: Mamoru Doi (doi@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 17:40:58 PST
Hi Isobel,
I got information of the seeing of Subaru last night.
They say that the seeing got worse suddenly in the middle of
the night (0.7"->2.0"). Eventually the seeing recovered
slightly with fairly large variance(0.6"-1.0").
-Mamoru
>A frustrating night at Gemini. After telescope problems that made it look
>like we wouldn't get anything, they got on the sky but the seeing was
>fluctuating a lot. They decided not to do the highest priority program and
>we had the option of observing in marginal conditions, which we decided to
>take in the hope of at least getting something. The seeing was around 0.9
>when we started. However at the end of the first half hour on SuF02-017
>the seeing was 1.4" and we couldn't see a trace in the spectrum, so we've
>decided to stop and hold out for better conditions another night (the
>objects are setting so it would probably have got even worse tonight).
Mamoru Doi
Institute of Astronomy
School of Science
University of Tokyo
voice +81-422-34-5084
fax. +81-422-34-5041
doi@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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