MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2016 May 08

Observer(s): Neustadt & Black
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: Echelle

Worked for 4.5 hours (last half of the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   High Humidity from Sunse until 23:30.
   Beg: Clear, Winds Calm, high humidity
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm, humidity in 70s
   End: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm, humidity in 70s

Observing Summary:

TCS was not working at the beginning of the night, which, 
with the help of Erek Alper and Eric Galayda, was due to the
McGraw computer crashing at some point between then and last 
night.  We had the 2.4m observer (Dr. Chornock) power cycle
McGraw and everything started working again!  
Unfortunately, humidity prevented us from opening up until around
23:30.  Afterwards, things went smoothly.  


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Submitted on 2016 May 9 [4:34:57]