MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2014 Jun 17

Observer(s): John Thorstensen & Erek Alper
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: echelle ccd + buckeye FW

Worked for 9 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1. arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 1. arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   End: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate

Observing Summary:

A very good night, with quite decent seeing.  Started out clear 
with a few fragmented cumulus, which went away.  A bit windy but
nothing excessive.  Seeing degraded slightly toward the end as
ambient temperature dropped a ways below mirror -- lowered set
point on mirror A/C a couple of degrees for tomorrow night in 
case it stays as cool as it is.  Pointing is mediocre but usable -
there's an obvious scale error in dec in the sense that in the 
north you search farther north for your target, and in the south
you search farther south.  

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Submitted on 2014 Jun 18 [5:21:01]