MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2002 Dec 09

Observer(s): Scott Gaudi
Institution(s): IAS

Instrument: 8K

Worked for 8 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 7pm until 10pm.
   Beg: Overcast, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 0.5 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Binned-8 mosaic image reads all zero's.  Took about 45 minutes, rebooting vesuvius, and calling Chris Burke to figure out that this didn't affect the unbinned images.  

Seeing was excellent the last half of the night, reaching 0.5  at some points.

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Submitted on 2002 Dec 10 [7:18:02]