MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2011 Aug 30

Observer(s): Paust
Institution(s): Whitman/Dartmouth

Instrument: OSMOS

Worked for 6 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 until 10.
   Beg: Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

We had rain an hour before sunset and clouds that started to break up about a half hour after the sun went down.  There was some lightning far out to the east as well.  As a result, we stayed shut until 10 or so when it became clear that while conditions weren't perfect, they weren't getting worse.

Apart with some unfamiliarity with the control software that cost us a little bit of time in centering and focussing, the night was extremely productive with very nice seeing at times.

At sunrise, there were a fair number of patchy low clouds, I swear they weren't there in the dark though, so they must have appeared right when the sun was coming up.

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Submitted on 2011 Aug 31 [6:09:42]