MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2009 Feb 10

Observer(s): McGreer
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: TIFKAM

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

Seeing and Weather:
   High Humidity from 6 until 2.
   Beg: Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.0 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:


Humidity hovered around 95% until 1am when it dropped rapidly.
Started turning computers back on (off since the power outage)
and by 2am humidity was under 80%.  No wind so opened up.  
Some periods of very good seeing (<1.0'') mixed with the 
occasional haze.  Collected a good number of both IR and 
optical images in the time available.

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Submitted on 2009 Feb 11 [6:37:00]