MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2012 Sep 30

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

Instrument: 4K

Worked for 11 hours (all 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:

My primary target for the night didn't rise until 8:30pm, so I took dome flats starting at 7:30pm.

When I went to get on sky, the guide probe was not responding to the  move guide probe  command.

I closed and restarted JSkyCalc, but when I did that the MIS window completely froze and went gray, so I couldn't click anything but the x in the upper righthand corner to close it.

When I tried to restart xmis2 I got an error that there was another instance running so it could not be started.  At this point I called Bob.  

Eventually I closed all the programs down and killed the xmis2 process and restarted everything.

I finally ended up getting on sky around 10:00pm (once I restarted everything and redid the pointing).

I should note my primary target was too close to the Moon, so I ended up observing a different target.

No other problems were encountered.

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Submitted on 2012 Oct 1 [5:43:45]