MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2004 Jan 07

Observer(s): armstrong, tuttle, gemdjian
Institution(s): columbia

Instrument: templeton/direct

Worked for 7.5 hours (first half of the night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   Mid: Overcast, Winds Calm
   End: Overcast, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Started out partly cloudy; by 1am sky was completely covered.
That and the moon made for pretty lousy conditions.  Got two
poor-quality time series.  Gave up integrations a little after
1:30am, and spent the next 2.5 hours cleaning up the reduction.

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Submitted on 2004 Jan 8 [3:51:05]