MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2016 Feb 07

Observer(s): Price-Whelan, Sheffield, & Tzanidakis
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: Echelle+Modspec

Worked for 11 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Seeing 2.1 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 2.0 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.7 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Cirrus all night but still productive...18 targets. We had to
restart the MIS (as usual). There is a slight  pattern  in the
bias frames -- stripes along rows -- but is is seemingly random
and of order 10 ADU. The dome contacts needed to be manually
aligned at the end of the night.

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Submitted on 2016 Feb 8 [6:58:58]