MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2016 Aug 17

Observer(s): Thorstensen/Klusmeyer
Institution(s): Dartmouth/MDM

Instrument: OSMOS+B4k

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:
   Beg: Seeing 1.3` arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

Beautiful clear night with about an hour of brightly-moonlit 
altocumulus cloud passing through around midnight.  Telescope
worked well, no problems with dome.  

When doing spectroscopy, used a new technique to offset the 
telescope to put the object in the slit; rather than moving the 
guide probe, we stopped the guider and changed the target pixel
coordinates of the guide star on the guide camera.  This has
no mechanical slop at all and appears to be quite a bit more
reliable than the guide probe technique. 

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Submitted on 2016 Aug 18 [5:39:48]