Weather Report for January 16, 2018


The final night of observing at the Kuiper Telescope this month began with only very light cirrus clouds, mostly to the southwest, in the sky. Observations went well and largely cloud free until about midnight when more serious cirrus clouds began coming in from the west. By 0130 local time, observations had to be halted because of the clouds. The sky remained overcast for the rest of the night and only about half of the number of targets were observed compared to the other nights in this campaign. The seeing during the usable portion of the night hovered around 1.5 arcsec.

Campaign 104 was highly productive with over 100 observations of blazars obtained in only five nights. The program will now quickly transition over to the Bok Telescope on Kitt Peak, AZ, and in less than 72 hours, Campaign 105 will start.