MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2003 Oct 31

Observer(s): Bureau, Kamphuis
Institution(s): Columbia, Groningen

Instrument: Echelle, f/7.6 Direct Imaging

Worked for 9 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Seeing 1.9 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 2.2 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds High
   End: Seeing 1.8 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Moderate

Observing Summary:

We continued our optical imaging program of the Sauron early-type galaxies. We were clouded out for 2 hours at the beginning of the night but then worked through a large patch of clear sky for a few hours, although high winds restricted were we could point and lead
to bad tracking in a number of cases. The last third of the night, we worked through thin (and not so thin!) cirrus, increasing our exposure times.

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Submitted on 2003 Nov 1 [5:22:29]