MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2012 Aug 31

Observer(s): Gaidos + Colon
Institution(s): UH

Instrument: 4K

Worked for 5 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   High Humidity from 01:00 until .
   Beg: Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   Mid: Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

There were patchy clouds early on, then it cleared up about the same time the humidity increased (to above 80%).  This forced a shutdown.

The TCS communication dropped out when we did the final move to zenith.

We noticed the dewar temperature at 01:00 was still -117.3.

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Submitted on 2012 Sep 1 [1:15:32]