MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2015 Feb 20

Observer(s): Stephanie Douglas, Jose Zorrilla
Institution(s): Columbia University

Instrument: ModSpec/Echelle

Worked for 4 hours (off and on through the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 0230 until 09:15.
   Beg: Overcast, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

It was overcast at the start of the night. We had two false starts
with a little bit of data when it started clearing up, but there 
were significant high clouds that blocked out almost everything. 
We eventually opened up for good around UT~9:30, and the clouds
cleared enough that we could get a decent amount of data. 
We closed around UT~12:30

The only issue we encountered was not being able to ssh into the
workstation to get our target lists into jskycalc, and the 
folder that typically shows files from hiltner was also missing 
from the workstation.  We probably only lost 10-20 min to 
hand-typing our targets into jskycalc for guiding. 

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Submitted on 2015 Feb 21 [5:51:47]