MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2005 Apr 05

Observer(s): Cackett
Institution(s): St Andrews

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 9 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 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   End: Seeing 5-10 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Moderate

Observing Summary:

Clear skies for most of the night. Wind got stronger towards
middle of the night leading to some windshake .  At UT 08:10
seeing became incredibly poor (10 ).  Could not obtain NGC 4593
as couldn't locate it on the slit due to seeing.
Managed to get all other targets in good conditions, except
NGC 5548 with very poor seeing.

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Submitted on 2005 Apr 6 [4:49:01]