MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2014 Dec 13

Observer(s): John Thorstensen
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: Mark III + Templeton

Worked for 4 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Clear, Winds Light & Variable, Too humid!
   Mid: Clear, Winds Light & Variable, Too humid!
   End: Seeing 1+ arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm, Finally, good!

Observing Summary:

High humidity until 2 AM, then opened as temperature dropped
below freezing and humidity eased.  I ran the 1.3m from the 
2.4 m --  Erek Alper had done this on previous nights but 
he'd turned in for a bit before leaving the mountain at 4:40 AM.
I'd done this before with the Andor; running the spectrograph
remotely is not too hard, but rather more complicated as it
tends to require more interaction.  Still, it works!

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Submitted on 2014 Dec 14 [7:08:06]