MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2007 Jul 19

Observer(s): armstrong; thompson
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:

But I hate to call it 'bad' weather.  It was possibly the most 
spectacular, dramatic natural display I've seen.  For a few hours
at the start of the night, lightning cast the world under a 
strobe light - blazing an intense blue white and then plunging into
blackness in a fraction of a second.  Astounding.

The lightning drifted away by 1am, but the sky was still cloaked 
in clouds, and it still drizzled.  At 1:45 I turned in for the 
night.  At 10am I got up and read John's report and now feel totally
lame for not having stuck it out for another couple hours.

So far as I know, The Rat is still at large.  Motivated by my horror
that such a monster would choose to terrorize my fellow observer, I
ask anyone with information leading to the eventual capture and 
containment of this rat, to please step forward immediately.  You will
receive a free quick-wrapped Blake's Cheesecake from the Three
Points truck stop.

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Submitted on 2007 Jul 20 [10:37:42]