MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2023 Oct 05

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

Instrument: Templeton Direct

Worked for 11 hours (all night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Seeing 2 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 2 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 2 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

Intervals of cloud, some of it opaque, and some reasonably good 
intervals as well.  Satellite showed a stream of cloud blowing
in from the southwest.  I soldiered on through the night, and
was rewarded with something like 50 per cent usable time series
photometry.  It was never actually clear.  No equipment issues.

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Submitted on 2023 Oct 6 [6:01:03]