MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2011 Sep 17

Observer(s): Uthas, de Miguel 
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: R4K

Worked for 11 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Very nice night, instrument and telescope behaved perfect 
(except for the problems caused by the previous thunderstorm,
homing the dome, and focusing). 

We still have problems with the prospero command  go  and also  mgo .
We do long time-series with many exposures and occasionally, the files seems 
to get stuck and won't transfer into the data directory. When doing  startup  
and  runinit  again, all the stuck frames do transfer at the same time, no data 
is lost. Error message is:  warning, could not update nextfile and lastfile .     

Also, the upper limit of  mgo 99  is really not enough for us....

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Submitted on 2011 Sep 18 [15:14:00]