MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2007 Oct 19

Observer(s): Rob Siverd & Mike Eyler
Institution(s): Ohio State & Naval Academy

Instrument: CCDS & retrocam

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

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

Observing Summary:

Some clouds visible at/around the time of sunset suggested the 
night would not be photometric.  Initially, winds were very calm
(3pmh average or so), especially given last night's sustained 15+
mph winds with gusts above 25mph. We observed a variety of objects
in our queue successfully.  Two or three times during the night,
the retrocam program failed to save its image and required a 
Control-C followed by a restart of the retrocam program.  This
appeared to be an XPA-related software error that resulted from
multiple running instances of DS9.  This error required retaking
two images, but their short duration (under a minute) did not 
make this a problem.

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Submitted on 2007 Oct 20 [5:35:50]