MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2008 May 03

Observer(s): Atlee
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: 4k Camera

Worked for 10 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 Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 1.6 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

I began the night by taking a series of dome flats for Katie
Schlessinger, as conditions were not suited to precision
photometry and both of the variables observable in the early
evening already had at least one night of extended data.  As a
result, there are no seeing measurements from the first third
of the night.

The rest of the night was spent taking two long runs, the first
was an observation of a TrES-3 transit for Jason Eastman and the
second was the CV DQ Her, observed for Joe Patterson.

The night went very well, with the exception of the failure of
the Mag-Lite in the control room.  This had no significant
impact on observations, other than as an inconvenience.

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Submitted on 2008 May 4 [5:43:44]