MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2006 Mar 10

Observer(s): Sheets
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: echelle - direct

Worked for 2 hours (first half of the night)
Conditions were Overcast most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Seeing 1+ arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Fog/Low Clouds, Winds High, some sleet or rain
   End: Fog/Low Clouds, Winds High, sleet or rain

Observing Summary:

after finally arriving on the mountain at 4pm today, 15 hour 
after planned, it was cloudy.  at sunset, though, it magically 
cleared for a couple hours.  all i got were a few possibly 
usable flats, because i wasn't expecting to be observing and 
hadn't had time to get everything set up.  while i was fighting 
with setting up, the clouds rolled back in, so i never got any 
science observations, just the flats.  ah well.  i worked out 
some of the first night bugs at least.

went to bed around midnight, woke up periodically throughout the
early morning to the sound of the wind lashing some form of 
precip against the building.

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Submitted on 2006 Mar 11 [6:55:29]