Re: Gemini tonight

From: Mamoru Doi (doi@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 17:40:58 PST

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    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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