MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2018 Nov 28

Observer(s): Podjed, Stephanie
Institution(s): Dartmouth College

Instrument: Templeton

Worked for 13.5 hours (all night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Seeing 2.055 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 2.38 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 2.36 arcsec, Overcast, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

For the most part, observing went fairly well. There were a lot of clouds 
throughout the night, especially after approximately 00:30 local time; the 
conditions were not photometric at all and took about an hour or so out of 
my observing time (had to wait for lull in cloud cover for several exposures).
Seeing also not so good throughout the night.

The TCS did crash around 06:00, right as one of my last  exposures was 
running out; not sure what happened, but was able to get it back up and 
running quickly enough to re-set everything and finish up flats & close 
up.



 

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Submitted on 2018 Nov 29 [7:09:21]