MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2012 Oct 16

Observer(s): Julie Skinner
Institution(s): Dartmouth College

Instrument: MkIII+Nellie

Worked for 10 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 18:00 until 19:15.
   Beg: Seeing 1.7 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.7 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

There were clouds from the dissipating tropical storm Paul for the first part of the night.
I opened around 7:15.  The rest of the night had patchy cirrus, but
was mostly ok.  Seeing wasn't bad, so the night shaped up alright.

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Submitted on 2012 Oct 17 [6:15:17]