MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2017 May 13

Observer(s): S Hamilton, K Campbell, B Reed, B Greaves, B Dittenber, S O'Keef
Institution(s): University of Michigan

Instrument: 4K imager

Worked for 8.5 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 1:30a until end.
   Beg: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm, Seeing is estimate
   Mid: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Moderate, Seeing is estimate
   End: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Moderate, Seeing is estimate

Observing Summary:

We obtained imaging data for four student observing projects. 
The first aimed to obtain HII region information of a galaxy in R band 
and with the H-alpha filter. The second involved obtaining both comparison 
and search images for Near Earth Object studies. The third aimed to 
obtain both R band and H-alpha data of a radio lobe coming from M87. 
The fourth aimed to obtain photometric data of several LBV stars.

Weather was pretty good all night. Seeing was decent. It started getting 
windy in the second half of the night and clouds started to appear in both 
the north and the south. However, <1.5 airmass remained pretty clear.

Our observing run went very smoothly, no problems to report.

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Submitted on 2017 May 14 [4:43:24]