MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2009 Nov 09

Observer(s): M. Kilic
Institution(s): CfA/OSU

Instrument: Direct Echelle

Worked for 12 hours (all night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 18:00 until 22:00.
   Beg: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 0.8 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Clouds and relatively bad seeing at the beginning of the night.
It cleared after several hours, and stayed that way till morning,
but cirrus was visible in the morning when I closed down the
telescope. The seeing was very good in the second half of the
night.

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Submitted on 2009 Nov 10 [6:42:01]