MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2006 Sep 23

Observer(s): Bentz and Denney
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: CCDS

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

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 8:30 until 9:30.
   Beg: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

The evening started with clouds on the horizon in all directions.
We were able to get about an hour of data before the clouds 
covered us up.  We lost an hour, and then we spent another hour 
or two fighting to keep our guide star visible, as the cloud cover
was changing rapidly.  We managed to start getting spectra of 
PG1617+175 before the clouds, and we spent the rest of the 
evening finishing PG 0804+761 from last night, getting Akn564,
and 2/3 of PG0052+251.  The sky was fairly clear the last half of 
the night.

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Submitted on 2006 Sep 24 [5:30:27]