MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2005 Nov 06

Observer(s): Martin Bureau , Anne-Marie Weijmans
Institution(s): Oxford University, Leiden Univ.

Instrument: Direct Imaging, f/7.6, echelle

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:
   Beg: Seeing 1.6 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Continuation of an optical imaging follow-up of the Sauron survey of
early-type galaxies. The first half of the night was partially cloudy,
with scattered cirrus, and we did work and integrate (forever) on a
couple of objects... Not many photons though! The clouds were simply
too thick in the second half of the night and we could not achieve
much. The seeing was 1.5-1.7  when we did get decent exposures. We
again followed SN2005ew for Arlin Crotts.

We had no technical problem. Especially, no problem with the bias level.

This is thus the last night of our last run for this project, which in
the end lasted 40 nights, both a testimony to the amount of data
acquired and unfortunately to our poor weather statistics. This most
likely is also the last MDM run for me, so I would like to sincerely
thank all the local staff for their support (Bob, Tony, Paul), and of
course everybody in the consortium who makes observing at MDM
possible. This is a project that would have been hard to carry out
until the end in most observatories... Special thanks to Columbia as
well for continuing to support the project after my departure.

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Submitted on 2005 Nov 7 [7:20:43]