MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2010 Jun 07

Observer(s): Schroeder
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: Nellie

No Observing (see comments below)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.

Observing Summary:

Cloudy nights at the beginning.

As the skies cleared, I attempted to take observations.

The declination drive oscillations were still there.

Even accounting for this, there was a strange response on the chip.

I ran the ut command and everything was fine.

I thought it might be moisture so I tried to blow it off with dry nitrogen.

The response didn't improve and when I ran ut again I noticed the temperature rising steadily.

Does this mean vacuum was lost? If so, I'm not sure what to do. I couldn't really find any documentation on what to do in such a situation.

So I closed at 11:30 pm.



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Submitted on 2010 Jun 7 [23:29:44]