MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2007 Dec 26

Observer(s): Tobin and Zhu
Institution(s): Michigan

Instrument: TIFKAM

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

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 0.9 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   End: Seeing 1.8 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate

Observing Summary:

Observed most of the night. The first few hours 
were used working the kinks out of our observing system.
We then ran into the problem of not being able to focus the 
guider while TIFKAM is focused, preventing long exposures. We
were limited to 5 second integrations most of the night due to lack of
guiding. See trouble report.

Also, we were not able to align the pupil mask of TIFKAM xpupil 
would not function. See trouble report.

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Submitted on 2007 Dec 27 [4:23:07]