MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2008 Dec 21

Observer(s): Nathan Crockett
Institution(s): University of Michigan

Instrument: Nellie

Worked for 10 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

Observed fields in Orion and Landolt standards. During the second
half of the night, the telescope started to wobble along dec. 
These wobbles resulted in unusable data because the amplitude of
these wobbles could be as large as an arc-minute or so. This 
meant that my targets looked like vertical line in my images.
Seeing was good though during the first part of the night,
1.2-1.5''.

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Submitted on 2008 Dec 22 [5:37:01]