MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2013 Jul 13

Observer(s): A. Gianninas
Institution(s): University of Oklahoma

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 1.5 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 9:00 until 2:30.
   Beg: Overcast, Winds Calm
   Mid: Overcast, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.8 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

After submitting my report last night, I took a look outside and
saw nearby lightning so I performed the lightning shutdown before
going to bed. 

When I woke up, there still seemed to be a threat of lightning so I
waited awhile before starting up all the computers. Early in the 
evening, around 6:00pm, there was once again lightning in the 
distance so I shutdown once again.

I finally turned all the systems back on around 8:00pm but didn't open 
the dome until midnight. For about an hour I tried to acquire 
a star but the cloud cover was too thick so I closed again at 1:00am.
At 2:30am, I opened up again as the sky cleared up and I was 
successfully able to observe until twilight at 4:00am. I then 
proceeded to closeup and fill the dewar. There does not seem to be 
any threat of lightning from now until noon, so I have left the 
computers systems on.

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Submitted on 2013 Jul 14 [4:49:18]