MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2014 Oct 23

Observer(s): Daniel Nieto
Institution(s): Columbia University

Instrument: 4K

Worked for 12 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 2.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Relatively good weather conditions throughout the night, very thin layer of cirrus detected in the red filter image of the all-sky monitor.
Seeing spanning from 9.0px FWHM to 4.5px FWHM.
A few images of the tracking error graph were taken (sorry, not all of them include alt/az data) to asses the nodding problem. The images can be temporarily found here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n5jekdvkpvdlnh0/teg-1-20141024.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yelxk8745b004zf/teg-2-20141024.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1slojiuya70f8yc/teg-3-alt49-az160-20141024.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dzn2aafumuew8bd/teg-4-alt54-az159-20141024.jpg?dl=0


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Submitted on 2014 Oct 24 [7:12:41]