MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2012 Feb 24

Observer(s): Shappee
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 12 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 1.2 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm, really more hazzy 
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm, really more hazzy 
   End: Seeing 1.0 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm, really more hazzy 

Observing Summary:

Overall good night.  The sky was hazzy all night, not separate cirrus clouds just very light over the whole sky.  Seeing dropped below 1  last 1/3 of the night.

Telescope is still misbehaving for small N-S offsets at random points through out the night.

Also, one of the telescope background programs seemed to have died in the middle of the night. I could not start exposures.  After  telescope stop ,  telescope start , Prospero (telinit and startup) and restarting jskycalc things were back to normal.  Total time cost ~35min.  

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Submitted on 2012 Feb 25 [6:16:13]