MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2007 Mar 24

Observer(s): Eastman
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 12 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Despite a slow start and marginal weather, I got quite a bit 
done. I had some trouble with the pointing before I realized the
telescope was expecting J2007.22 coordinates. Then the guider 
wouldn't send its offsets to the telescope, but Bob suggested 
that its power wasn't turned back on in the computer room after 
the last lightning shutdown, which was correct. These problems, 
and generally getting things going with the new instrument
configuration ate up the first 1.5 hours (and luckily the worst 
in terms of weather).

After that, things went rather smoothly (until the tracking 
stopped; see trouble report). I got 3 standards and 6 AGN, in 
addition to getting slit images and guider positions for each 
field that will help reduce overhead in the future.

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Submitted on 2007 Mar 25 [5:55:24]