MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2014 Mar 03

Observer(s): Nicholas Kern
Institution(s): University of Michigan

Instrument: OSMOS

Worked for 8 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 1:00 until on.
   Beg: Clear, Winds Calm, Cold
   Mid: Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

The beginning of the night had decent transparency and little cloud cover, however seeing seemed to be bad, and it was very cold. Humidity was around 80%.
By the middle of the night humidity dropped to 70%, and the air temperature warmed slightly, however, increased cloud cover and continually degrading transparency led to less than ideal conditions by the end of the night.
I was able to complete two masks, 523414 and 510639, slit 1 and slit 2 respectively. When working on slit 1 I lost my pointing and had to manually reset at zenith, but it worked fine. 


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Submitted on 2014 Mar 4 [5:16:45]