MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2004 Mar 11

Observer(s): Gavin Dalton
Institution(s): Oxford (Dartmouth)

Instrument: 8k

Worked for 4 hours (last half of the night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from  until 1am.
   Beg: Overcast, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 0.77 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Thunderstorms at 5pm and then continued ominous clouds until about 1am

One crash of the mdm8k system (slave controller lost contact)
cured by a reboot of vesuvius.

seeing 0.75 

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Submitted on 2004 Mar 12 [6:47:05]