MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2005 Dec 30

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

Instrument: CCDS, RETROCAM

Worked for 10 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 02:00 until 05:00.
   Beg: Seeing 1. arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1.8 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

A partly cloudy night, but with some results for SNe and
lensed QSOs.  During a period of dense clouds, we managed
to run the entire CCDS calibration script without any
failures to write to disk.

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Submitted on 2005 Dec 31 [6:24:16]