MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2017 Oct 18

Observer(s): Fesen & Weil
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: Echelle Direct

Worked for 3 hours (first half of the night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Seeing 1 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   Mid: Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   End: Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Partly clear during first half of the night, with periods of 
denser clouds plus cirrus for the rest of night.
Telescope jumped once ~2.2 s in RA while observing at Dec +60
which caused us to pause exposure and move telescope back to
guide position. We do not suspect the problem is in the guider.

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Submitted on 2017 Oct 19 [4:54:05]