MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2011 Sep 15

Observer(s): John Thorstensen
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: OSMOS + 'blue'4k

Worked for 4 hours (off and on through the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 8 PM until 4 Am.
   Beg: Seeing 1+ arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Overcast, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1+ arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

Weirdly mixed weather, but mostly a lot of low to midlevel cloud,
with breaks.  Opened and closed several times.  Got an unexpected 
little shower in the middle of the night -- luckily the mirror 
cover was closed.  

Made more progress in generating observing scripts for the new 
Leach-based systems during the long cloudy intervals.

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Submitted on 2011 Sep 16 [6:16:10]