MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2008 Jan 18

Observer(s): Denney & Grier
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 11 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Tonight went very smoothly.  We showed Dick Treffers how we open
and operate the telescope and dome when we opened up tonight.

Then we finished observing the green and red settings of PG0026.
We were lacking objects in the middle of the night, so we just
looked at the Hbeta region of Akn120 and Mrk79 for the hell of it.

We then observed all three grating settings of PG1229, and tried 
to get the Hbeta region of MCG 6-30-15, but it appears to be too
faint for this telescope (V=15.6), and even 1200s exposures didn't show 
much of anything (especially through the cirrus we had for a
good part of the night).

Oh, I did get some cool pictures with my digital camera of the 
cloud formations outside, illuminated by the moon and shadowing
Orion!

Overall, good and uneventful night.

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Submitted on 2008 Jan 19 [6:33:38]