MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2015 Dec 01

Observer(s): Fausnaugh
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: OSMOS

Worked for 12.5 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.8 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 2.3 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.9 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Long but industrious night for MDM2.4 queue.  Observed:

PS1-13cbe (Chornock)
ASASSN 15tg, 15th, 15ti, 2MASXJ0305 (suspected 15ti host) (ASASSN team/Wagner)
V838Mon, V959Mon (Wagner)
SDSS075105 (Frank)

Reasonable conditions---thin cirrus at opening, mostly clear by morning.

Poor seeing all night (>= 1.7, reaching 2.7).  I noticed that the mirror temperature
was reading about 1.5 degrees higher than the dome ambient for most of the
night.  
However, I did see a lot of twinkling when stepping outside.

I also forgot to set CamFocus for the evening calibrations, so these 
arc lamps are out of focus.  Rerunning calibration script for the morning.



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Submitted on 2015 Dec 2 [6:45:37]