MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2010 Sep 07

Observer(s): Dietrich
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 7.5 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 0:00 until 4:30.
   Beg: Cirrus, Winds Calm
   Mid: Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   End: Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm, high humidity

Observing Summary:

This night 4.5 targets of the AGN monitoring campaign have been
observed. At the beginning of the night it wasn't possible to
slew to 3C390.3 - error message that pointing convergence failed.
However, later there were no problems to move the telescope to
3C390.3 The telescope guiding was nodding in DEC as well as in
RA with an amplitude of a few arcsec for short periods of time.
An not properly performed reset of the telescope pointing resulted
into a tedious recovery of the pointing.

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Submitted on 2010 Sep 8 [5:10:45]