MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2005 Jan 23

Observer(s): eve armstrong
Institution(s): columbia

Instrument: templeton / direct

No Observing (see comments below)
Bad weather most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:

Observing Summary:

Clouds, rain, humidity, you name it.  No observations.




'Have You?'


Have you seen the sun dissolve beyond
Those evanescent hazes
That aimlessly will wander
Over grounds of silent mazes

In impalpable phases?


Have you seen the sunset shrouded
By a rain storm drawing near,
The horizon heavy (clouded),
Yet in patches pink will peer

And is loathe to disappear?


Have you heard the rain fall lightly
On the roof amid the dark
When the air has cooled off slightly 
But allows sky no remark,

No moon
  no shine
    no spark?


Have you watched the weather seize the sky
And bluish shadows make
That refuse to fly, and blind your eye
With winter winds that snake

Around the hills, and shake
 the trees and leaves and lake,
   and whine, as if they ache?


Then why're you still awake?

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Submitted on 2005 Jan 23 [23:48:52]