MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2006 Nov 03

Observer(s): L. Watson
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: CCDS and Retrocam

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

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Seeing 0.8 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 0.8 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 0.7 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

There were pretty thick cirrus clouds up until about 12:30am, 
but during that time I went ahead and observed one of C. 
Kochanek's lenses, one SDSS supernova, a flaring star upon 
request from J. Patterson and N. Mirabal.  After the weather 
cleared a bit, I observed four more lenses and multiple supernova
for the Carnegie Supernova Program.  The clouds stuck around all
night although zenith cleared pretty well in the early hours of 
the morning.

I discovered that cirrus seem to help your seeing as long as you
can make out your object!

Also, there is a *very* loud and **very** high pitched noise
that surges through the control room (and possibly the dome)
during what I can only make out to be random times during 
the night.  I couldn't take my fingers out of my ears long 
enough to locate where it's coming from.  If anyone has any 
ideas, pleas let me know.  My ears hurt!

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Submitted on 2006 Nov 4 [6:57:44]