MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2006 Dec 04

Observer(s): Prieto
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: CCDS + RETROCAM

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

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 0 UT until 4 UT.
   Beg: Seeing 1.7 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 0.8 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

CCDS and Retrocam worked great, and the telescope worked
fine too. The night started with some clouds to the N-NW 
that eventually moved over the zenith a couple of hours 
after sunset. I observed a couple of objects through clouds, 
but finally decided to wait. It got better after ~9-10pm, 
seeing varied from 1.7  (early in the night) to ~0.8-0.9  
at the end. The best was 0.7  in g and 0.5  in i in 60sec 
images of a supernova.  

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Submitted on 2006 Dec 5 [7:13:01]