MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2012 Feb 11

Observer(s): ZAstrow & De Rosa
Institution(s): UM OSU

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 5 hours (first half of the night)
Bad weather most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   High Winds all night.
   Beg: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 1.7 arcsec, Clear, Winds High
   End: Overcast, Winds High

Observing Summary:

While setting up the telescope we had some issues with the panel 
control hanging during mirror opening.
Night started mostly clear with few cirrus on 
the horizon, good seeing. Wind progressively got stronger. 
We decided to close te dropout shutter to preserve telescope 
pointing. At UT 4:21 we closed for 1h 20 m because the wind 
was too strong. After re-opening we had few hours of observing 
before clouds covered the sky. We managed to observe 3 targets 
and 2 standards. High priority targets were not observable due to 
wind direction.


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Submitted on 2012 Feb 12 [5:14:49]