MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2012 Sep 24

Observer(s): Colon
Institution(s): UH

Instrument: 4K

Worked for 9 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

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

Observing Summary:

Weather was pretty perfect all night.

The lights flickered several times in the control room in the beginning of the night but seemed to stabilize within a few hours after sunset.

Around 10:15 pm the TCS lost connection to the server.  I waited a bit for the connection to come back but it did not.  
I tried restarting the TCS gui and that didn't work.  I then tried typing  telescope start  in a terminal and noted that a connection to hill could not be established.
I then checked the computer room and saw that hill was off for some reason.  I powered hill up and eventually got things working again.
However, I lost over an hour of observing time between troubleshooting and then having to set up the pointing for the telescope again, since I again encountered a 13+ minutes offset in the east/west tilt after the TCS was restarted.
Unfortunately this issue occurred right in the middle of the candidate transit event that I was observing.

I submitted a trouble report detailing the above problem.

I observed one target for most of the night with no other problems besides the one detailed above.  I shut down a little early since my primary target set before 5:30 am (and so I could catch up on sleep!).

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Submitted on 2012 Sep 25 [5:24:38]