MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2010 Oct 18

Observer(s): Ashley King and Claudia Araya
Institution(s): Umich and Osu

Instrument: ccds

Worked for 6 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 2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 4 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

We had no cloud cover all night, which made for photometric observing.
At the middle of the night, the tracking stopped working and we had 
to restart the IC and close all the windows. This fixed the tracking problem
but the telescope was than misaligned. We managed to realign the telescope 
by sending it to the zenith and applying the offsets by hand. We lost 
3 hours in doing these steps. The end of the night we were able to finish
observing.

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Submitted on 2010 Oct 19 [5:00:28]