MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2009 Sep 25

Observer(s): Andrea Kunder
Institution(s): Dartmouth College

Instrument: 4K x 4K

Worked for 12 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Nice night.  Good weather.  At the end of the night, when I went 
to take dawn flats, the telescope would only move when the 
tracking was on.  When the tracking was off, the
telescope would not move to home position.  So I lost some 
critical time there trying to get the telescope to point to the 
zenith until I figured out that I would slew the telescope with
the tracking on.  One time the dome started moving with the 
telescope during the night.  I didn't run any kind of tests to 
see if that was an anomaly or if the dome now moves with the 
telescope.  (I still used the technique of manually moving the 
dome.)

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Submitted on 2009 Sep 26 [6:19:29]