MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2019 Sep 06

Observer(s): John Thorstensen
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: OSMOS/B

Worked for 4 hours (first half of the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Seeing 1+ arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 1+ arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1+ arcsec, Overcast, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

Clouds around all night, but thin and sparse enough for first 
half to get quite a bit done.  Not long after midnight more 
opaque clouds arrived that made further observation impossible.
Waited them out, but threw in the proverbial towel a bit after
the beginning of twilight.  No technical problems.

At dinner, a postdoc and student from UMass Lowell, Rigel
Cappallo and Ankur Roy respectively asked if they could come 
down to visit for a while since they had been completely shut
out on WIYN by a problem with the main power cable to the 
telescope, and it was Ankur's first observing trip -- he hadn't
seen any telescopes in operation!  I was happy to oblige, and
they got to see things actually go.  

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Submitted on 2019 Sep 7 [5:08:39]