MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2008 Jan 20

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

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 11 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

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

Observing Summary:

The night went pretty good, only some cirrus toward the beginning
of the night.  We observed almost the whole night, but stopped a 
little early because it's our last night and we needed a little
sleep before going down the mountain.

We observed the Hbeta region of NGC7469 (only 1 exposure because
of high airmass this time of year) and 3c120.

We observed all three grating settings (full optical coverage)
of PG0844, and then two grating settings of MCG 08-23-067.

We had a couple minor issues - Prospero lost communication with
the IE again (requiring a  seqinit  on the IC), CCDSOPS locked
up again, and there's also still a bad column being read out
on the detector (see trouble report for details).

All in all, this has been a relatively good run (compared to 
some I've had :-)

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Submitted on 2008 Jan 21 [5:25:13]