MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2007 Feb 18

Observer(s): Kay
Institution(s): CU

Instrument: Templeton

Worked for 1 hours (first half of the night)
Conditions were Overcast most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Patchy Clouds, Winds Moderate, winds howling
   End: Patchy Clouds, Winds Moderate, winds howling

Observing Summary:

CCD problems in readout- on earlier nights this occurred once or twice and then went away, 
tonight it occurred frequently and ruined 2 900 sec exposures. 
Messages like:

`Did not receive shutter close indication from camera'

`Camera not responding- unexpected change of format to 1106x1024 binned 0x0
   return code = 1114112 (failed)'

`error encountered in a synchronous read: data suspect 
    return code 1114112
    CCDread times out'


SEE SCREEN FOR MORE

This was worse on the H alpha 6649 filter and 
less common on the R filter


Winds reading 15-18 but HOWLING outside. Called friend at KPNO 2.1, 
who reported winds 30-40 and they had shut down. We did too as there
were clouds anyway

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Submitted on 2007 Feb 19 [5:04:15]