MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2019 Aug 31

Observer(s): Jason Curtis
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: ModSpec

Worked for 4 hours (off and on through the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from  until .
   Beg: Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm, thunderstorms
   Mid: Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Cirrus, Winds Calm, humidity

Observing Summary:

No technical problems with observing, everything is running smoothly.
at around 8:20 pm, WIYN closed domes for threatening thunderstorms. They stayed far away, and never even got close enough to hear thunder, but I followed their lead. Should I have remained open and more closely monitored the storms?
They reopened around 11:50 pm;, and so did I. Just before 3 am, the humidity rose to 92 and I remained closed for the evening. 
Localized clouds blocked my main targets, which are observable during the first half of the night. 
Toward the end, clouds made it challenging at times to observe even 6-8th mag stars.

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Submitted on 2019 Sep 1 [10:01:02]