MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2009 Feb 15

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

Instrument: Echelle CCD + Buckeye FW

Worked for 7 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 start until 11 PM.
   Beg: Overcast, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 1.5-2 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Moderate
   End: Seeing 1-1.5 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:


Cloudy at start, but around 11 PM it cleared off partially --
there was cirrus for the rest of the night, but mostly it 
wasn't very thick.  Much of the night was windy with rather
mediocre seeing, up to 2 arcsec at time, but it got a bit
crisper toward the end.  Humidity is pretty low.  

These last four nights were Mike Shara and Sebastien Lepine's --
I covered for them when Sebastien couldn't make it (our program
is shared).  The next three are Mukremin Kilic's -- another
collaborator -- so I will switch to Kilic's program.  The 
instrumentation is identical.

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Submitted on 2009 Feb 16 [7:02:36]