MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2012 Feb 22

Observer(s): Hawkins, Shappee
Institution(s): Ohio Univ., OSU

Instrument: CCDS

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: Seeing 1.74 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 2.03 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.35 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

I opened at around 7pm. In the middle of the night, clouds were
spotted on the horizon otherwise the sky was clear.
We had relatively poor seeing throughout the night (+1.75 arcsec). 
The seeing did get slightly better towards the end of 
the night (~1.3 arcsec). 

There were minor problems with the Telescope hand paddle. Toggling 
5-15 arcsec. North or South would sometimes not do anything. This
caused a loss of less than 8-10 minutes throughout the night.

All objects were observed for the suggested time. However,
Mrk618 was only observed 3 times to allow full observations 
of Mrk478.There were ~40 minutes of extra time at the end of the night
which I used to observe 
Mrk478 as it has been under-observed in previous nights and 
is relatively dim compared to other objects on the target list.


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Submitted on 2012 Feb 23 [6:21:29]