MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2005 May 21

Observer(s): Bonfield, Schawinski
Institution(s): Oxford

Instrument: TIFKAM/RETROCAM

Worked for 9 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1.7 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Initially quite breezy, but fortunately dust never seemed to get 
up to the observatory, and by the end of the night it was calm.  
Seeing was quite poor, although this may in part have been due 
to difficulties maintaining focus as the telescope cooled rapidly 
from a high initial temperature (~30 C) in the first half of the
night, such that the standard formula for tracking the focus did
not work.  

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Submitted on 2005 May 22 [4:56:10]