MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2024 Apr 14

Observer(s): Jules Halpern
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: Templeton

Worked for 10 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 2.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   End: Seeing 1.7 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate

Observing Summary:

Quite a bit of cirrus at the beginning made it difficult to get 
clean sky flats.   For the first couple of hours tracking was
jumpy.  Not clear why since the wind was not strong (8 mph).
But it eventually settled down (on the first target) and the
middle + end of the night were very good.

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Submitted on 2024 Apr 15 [5:24:49]