--- 20/21 Dec 2012 ---

B400: center 4900
R300: center 6800

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Sky is clear, photometric, seeing ~ 1.4  - 1.6" (?)
No Moon (except in the very morning), photometric sky
all night

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Slit width 5"
star1: HD88230_K8V  Worthey 96, std. star with known Lick indices
star2: same
arc1: He Ne Ar arc
arc2: He Ne Ar arc

resolution looks bad: FWHM ~ 9-10 pix

Change to slit 2"

arc3: He Ne Ar 30 sec, position in the sky: Malin 2
arc4: same 60 sec
arc5: same 120 sec

bias 1 - 3

star1: HD88230_K8V  Worthey 96, std. star with known Lick indices
star2: same (1 sec)
star3: same (2 sec)

star4,5 ??? empty? bias???

Operator tried to find a star for focusing for 20 minutes, and failed
to do it. Focus is blind (was goot at this value in the
first part of the night). Starting exposing the galaxy:

star6-9: Malin 2, 4 x 30 min. Slit oriented E-W, i.e. ~40 deg.
         off the major axis. 

SDSS: seeing ~ 1.0-1.2"
star10-13: Malin 2. Slit oriented by PA ~39.5 deg (in the sense of galactic PA)
                 i.e. it is ~ 10 deg off the major axis, to pass through
                 a bright knot in the spiral arm in the 4th quadrant,
                 (rot = -50.5), and possibly another one (it may be
                 a foreground star, too!) in the opposite direction.)
(star 12: seeing ~ 1.4"?)

arc8, 9 - He Ne Ar arc lamps with 30 sec and 60 sec exposure

star 14: Feige34_std. Started late (right behind 15-degree twilight,
         which is at 11:53UT) because of problems with tracking that
         operator fixed.  
star 15: same, 30 sec exposure

fwhm ~5.5 pix (*0.3 pix/") - note that this is a very bright star

star16: GD153_std
star17: same, 30 sec. Almost 12-degree twilight. 

Dome closed. Operator filled dewars. 

bias 4-6

flat 1-9: Br. Quartz flats, 30 sec

dark 1-5: 30-minute darks