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The night was moderately successful. A lot of equipment problems, and while we all eventually found the right field, it was slow going. The cloud coverage increased during the night, which didn't help things.

You can see here too one possible alignment issue: that telescope is sitting flat on the ground, but the ground isn't flat! It was also irrigated, so things had sunk in by a few degrees at the end of the night. It's all good -- that's why we had practice nights.