MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2009 Feb 12

Observer(s): Feiden
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: 4k CCD

Worked for 12.5 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 0.8 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Kept receiving a seemingly benign error message of the following
form:  Failed to communicate with dome, network operation timed 
out . This would happen every so often, but much more so later in 
the night. The telescope would beep, and then continue on. It 
occurred only during the CCD readout or any period of inactivity.
No issues otherwise resulted from this error message.

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Submitted on 2009 Feb 13 [7:43:00]