MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2006 Dec 14

Observer(s): Pereira/McGreer
Institution(s): Columbia University

Instrument: 8K

Worked for 10 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

8K camera has pattern noise across all chips, in the B band this
noise is about 4X the sky background based on observations from
last night.

Observing conditions were otherwise very good.

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Submitted on 2006 Dec 15 [6:44:26]