MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2011 Aug 23

Observer(s): Schroeder
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: Osmos

Worked for 5 hours (part of the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

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

Observing Summary:

Clouds in the beginning, clouds at the end, but some pretty good
skies in between. The IC computer required rebooting in the
middle of the night, so it was fortunate that Jules had the
correct order of operations for booting to Osmos, otherwise
I think I'd have been sunk. After that, all was smooth sailing.
One good thing about Osmos is that the precise center of the chip
is also the precise center of the guider field of view. This makes
guide star acquisition easy.

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Submitted on 2011 Aug 24 [4:47:19]