MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2007 Mar 26

Observer(s): chris peters
Institution(s): dartmouth college

Instrument: echelle + 2-in FW

Worked for 5 hours (last half of the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 7 PM until 1 AM.
   Beg: Overcast, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.0 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 0.7 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

First half of the night was pretty frustrating due solely to 
clouds; they were thicker than anticipated!  Spent quite a few 
exposures trying to eke out some useful data, mostly to no avail.

However, at about 1 AM local, the clouds finally passed and 
I had great conditions (photometric for a little while).  I 
spent the last half of the night getting more direct images for 
the parallax programs.

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Submitted on 2007 Mar 27 [6:15:54]