MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2015 Mar 13

Observer(s): Wagner and Wilber
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: OSMOS

Worked for 10 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   High Winds from 00:00 until 05:30.
   Beg: Seeing 2 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 4 arcsec, Clear, Winds High
   End: Seeing 4 arcsec, Clear, Winds High

Observing Summary:

Seeing was pretty bad all night.  It started out at about 2 arcsec
and got steadily worse.  After the winds picked up after midnight
the seeing rose to about 4 arcsec.  We used the time to get a few
targets and get the next observer familiar with opening, running
the telescope and OSMOS, and closing at the end of the night.  

One thing to note was that we tried some center slit acquisitions
with OSMOS and had difficulty.  Only with the 1.2 arcsec center
slit were we able to successfully complete an acquisition using
the oalign.py script.  Both the 1.4 arcsec and 3 arcsec center
slits put the slit position and target in the wrong location. 
There were no issues with the inner slits.


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Submitted on 2015 Mar 14 [14:51:10]