MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2009 Mar 27

Observer(s): armstrong
Institution(s): columbia

Instrument: templeton/direct

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

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Just after setting up on my first star, I noticed that the xmis window
was blank - that is, the colored rectangles that *should* have
contained text were there, but the text itself was gone.  I
killed the xmis process, brought up a new xmis, hit 'initialize', 
and waited long enough to realize that it wasn't initializing.  
Killed the process again, and instantly the entire screen & cursor 
froze.

Consulted the manuals to find out whether it would screw things 
up if I shut down McGraw manually while the telescope was still 
tracking.  Didn't find any info.  Called Bob.

Bob said rebooting McGraw was fine; I rebooted.  Started the TCS 
and hit 'refresh', but while RA was displayed normally, the DEC, 
HA, and EQUINOX were blank.  

Under Bob's direction, typed  telescope stop  and then  start  in 
an xterm.  Things have worked swimmingly after that.

I'll close early to get some sleep before driving down in the morning.
 
Thank you, Bob, Tony, and Paul!

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Submitted on 2009 Mar 27 [21:38:11]