From: stephanie snedden
Subject: Re: 2.5m obslog 20060228 (MJD 53795)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:29:06 -0700
Congratulations to Viktor and Dan for getting almost 6K science
spectra in one night!
On Mar 1, 2006, at 12:57 PM, long@sdsshost2.apo.nmsu.edu wrote:
>
>                        APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M
>
>                                  OBSERVING LOG
>                            Tuesday February 28, 2006
>
>                                   (MJD 53795)
>
> ---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===---
>
> swing: Jurek Krzesinski
> night: Dan Long, Viktor Malanushenko
>
>
> ---=== OBSERVING PLAN ===---
>
>         Science!
>
> ---=== OBSERVING SUMMARY ===---
>
>            The start of the night did not look promising, but the
> clouds
>         thinned and the seeing stayed reasonable between 1.5 and 2.0
>         arcseconds.  After about 8:30Z clouds surrounded us but almost
>         never went above 20 degrees elevation, a nice inversion of the
>         "only cloud in NM being overhead" scenario.
>
>            What this added up to was the perfect spectroscopy night.
>         We finished all nine plates!  True, a couple had signal
> already
>         but hey, it's still nine plates!
>