MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2009 Feb 13

Observer(s): John Thorstensen & Eliza Gonsalves
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: echelle CCD + buckeye FW

Worked for 12.5 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate

Observing Summary:

Photometric, with variable seeing, much like last night.
Seeing numbers are rough, as it changed a fair amount.
It got colder and colder (to -2 C) and the RH started to 
climb at the end, but it only reached 80% by dawn.  This
might be the end of the good weather for a while ...

Equipment worked very well.  The only glitch was that I
scratched my finger on a small metal burr on the inner collar
of the doorknob going out into the dome at the end of the
night -- a few minutes with a file would cure that problem!

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Submitted on 2009 Feb 14 [7:12:40]