MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2010 Nov 05

Observer(s): Joe Antognini, Haojing Yan
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: OSMOS

Worked for 12 hours (all night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.0 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Tonight was much more uneventful, and hence, productive.  There were some cirrus
clouds again in the evening in morning, but the middle of the night was clear
enough for some imaging.  There were no winds to speak of; the seeing was
variable, averaging around 1.2 , but occasionally dipping down to 0.9 .

We had to manually set the guider focus at the beginning of the night, but we
didn't run into any problems with it afterward.  Not having any mechanical
problems tonight, I managed to get a fair amount of calibration data, and an
extra spectrum of a supernova in an odd-looking galaxy to boot.


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Submitted on 2010 Nov 6 [7:12:09]