MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2025 Jun 29

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

Instrument: Templeton direct

Worked for 8 hours (all night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 1 AM until 2:30 .
   Beg: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

A very nice night overall with no equipment problems; a band of
patchy but optically thick high cloud rolled over in the morning 
hours but cleared completely before dawn.  I could see it clearly
on the GOES long-wave IR animation -- a discrete band. 

I did not fill the dewar in the morning, it being a Monday.

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Submitted on 2025 Jun 30 [5:34:44]