MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2014 Jan 20

Observer(s): John Thorstensen
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: Echelle CCD direct + Buckeye FW

Worked for 13 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.1 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Very light cirrus around, with some near-photometric intervals.
Almost no wind.  Seeing decent though not spectacular.  No
problems to report, except I noticed the fans on the top of the 
dome are noisier than they had been and the motors driving the 
dropout closure sounded labored. Dropout looks more cockeyed than 
I'd remembered, but my memory may be deceiving me.

One glitch getting started -- had inadvertently set an impossible
subarray in Owl which caused it to balk.  I should revise the
manual a bit to make it clearer how to set some of the more
obscure subarray parameters. 

I'm contemplating an early change to spectroscopy, esp. given
the prediction of partly-cloudy conditions tonight.

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Submitted on 2014 Jan 21 [7:36:37]