MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2004 Dec 20

Observer(s): Rudie
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: 8k

Worked for 9 hours (first half of the night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   End: Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

clear throughout the night. Probably photometric early in the night.

later in the night the temperture dropped and the wind picked up ~20 mph.

temp. was quite variable throughout the night which made keeping focus quite difficult

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Submitted on 2004 Dec 21 [2:13:41]