MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2010 Apr 19

Observer(s): Uthas
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: Templeton/direct

Worked for 7 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 2.5 arcsec, Overcast, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

The night started out cloudy, but cleared up good!
Early in the evening, TCS lost connection to network (similar to what happened on 100417).
After TCS was restarted the telescope pointing was off by few arc minutes.
The telescoped was put in home position and the tilt sensors were set to 0.


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Submitted on 2010 Apr 20 [5:35:18]