MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2023 Oct 10

Observer(s): Doug Clowe/John Thorstensen
Institution(s): Ohio U/Dartmouth

Instrument: Templeton Direct

Worked for 11 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
   Mid: Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Clear, Winds Moderate

Observing Summary:

A nice clear night without issues.  

Doug Clowe and some of the students from his observing
class took the first half, which went smoothly.  

When they were done, he logged off and texted me, and I logged
on and confirmed I had the conn.  I observed without any issues
the rest of the night and saw two successive eclipses from a CV
I had been following, thus finally establishing its period. The
guide probe stage worked normally with the newly-replaced limit
switch in place.

The seeing was decent except for an interval of wretched seeing
at extremely high air mass in the east.  Also, during AM twilight
there appeared to be some wind shake.

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Submitted on 2023 Oct 11 [6:16:41]