MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2009 Jun 25

Observer(s): Parks
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: 4K

Worked for 4 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 1.92 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.96 arcsec, Overcast, Winds Calm
   End: Overcast, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

The night started ok with only a slight North/South guiding problem, 
but as the night progressed, clouds become more and more of a problem
eventually leading to exposures having to be executed in short windows
inbetween clouds.  This made for a slow and tedious night until around
830 UT when it became basically overcast.  I waited until about 1030UT 
attempting to get short 10 sec exposures of Cygnus when possible, but 
there were only a few exposures where this worked. Eventually the radar
showed that conditions were worsening and complete overcast was predicted
which prompted me to shut down about 45 minutes early.  Earlier in 
the night I was able to get some good exposures of Cygnus, but
NGC6633 was unfortunately covered by clouds the entire night (I 
continually checked).

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Submitted on 2009 Jun 25 [3:50:00]