MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2005 Dec 23

Observer(s): Jules Halpern, Sudhi Tyagi
Institution(s): Columbia U.

Instrument: CCDS + Retrocam

Worked for 13 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Seeing 2 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 3 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Moderate
   End: Seeing 2 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Moderate

Observing Summary:

Initial trouble with Prospero/Caliban was describe in an earlier
trouble report.  Things went fine after that, except that very
poor seeing made it difficult to select suitable targets from the
queue.  Spectra of a few SNe were useful, and perhaps one QSO,
but very few images were obtained.  A couple of bright backup
targets were observed.
  The archiving of these data will be delayed a bit since we have
not yet gotten a complete set of calibrations for spectroscopy.
The organizational requirements, in terms of file naming, exposure
types and times, finding charts, and standard stars, for a number
of different programs are daunting.  But hey, we do have 2 weeks
to get this straight.
   Happy holiday!

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Submitted on 2005 Dec 24 [7:21:41]