MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2012 Jan 22

Observer(s): Jason Pinkney & DJ Pleshinger
Institution(s): Ohio Northern University

Instrument: Modspec + Nellie

Worked for 6 hours (part of the night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Clear, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

Clouds in the west at beginning of night.

Since DJ and I didn't have the grating we need
we spent the night getting used to the new software and
equipment.  We practiced with the OWL by taking biases
and flats at the beginning of the night.  We took flats
at evenly spaced slit positions so that we could figure
out which slit reading was really 1.0 , etc.  We then
opened up the dome, louvres etc, and observed some stars
and galaxies.  Sky appeared clear by then.
We closed up before twilight being too tired to think.

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Submitted on 2012 Jan 23 [13:25:21]