MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2016 May 05

Observer(s): Ryan Chornock
Institution(s): Ohio University

Instrument: OSMOS/R

Worked for 3 hours (first half of the night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   High Winds from 10 until 4.
   Beg: Seeing 1.5-2 arcsec, Clear, Winds High
   Mid: Clear, Winds High
   End: Clear, Winds High

Observing Summary:


The night started off clear, with mediocre image quality, but breezy (~15mph).  The winds increased through the first few hours of the night. I was in contact with the KPNO 4m observer and they shut down around 9:25pm due to high winds and dust.  It was a little less windy down here, so I held out about another half hour before it started regularly gusting above 30mph and there was dust visible in my flashlight beam.
Shutdown at ~10PM, never to reopen.

The temperature also dropped overnight and we were actually nearing the humidity limit by 4:30am.



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Submitted on 2016 May 6 [4:37:37]