MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2014 Apr 25

Observer(s): Denney/King
Institution(s): OSU/UQ

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 6 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 7:00 until 8:00.
   Beg: Seeing 2.9 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 3.7 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds High
   End: Seeing 2.4 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds High, dust

Observing Summary:

We started late because of clouds early in the night.  As the
clouds thinned, the wind picked up, and we observed it go as
high as ~30mph.  Kitt Peak eventually closed domes due to the 
high winds, but we closed early, about 3am LST, due to the 
likelihood of dust in the air.

Actual observing went relatively smoothly otherwise.  DS9 exhibited
a weird problem in that the GUI buttons to change frames decided
not to work, even after closing the restarting the program,
but the commands worked through the menu buttons, so no biggie.

Anthea and I caught ourselves a couple of mice too...  One in 
the waste bin in the control room - turned the recycle bin over
on the waste bin when the mouse was in there rummaging around.
We're not sure what to do about it yet...  The other was
 partially  caught in a trap in the machine shop.  We haven't
decided what to do with it either...  Neither of us have any
problem disposing of dead mice, but we don't particularly want
to actually kill them ourselves...  Given it's Friday night,
presumably we'll think of something before the end of the 
weekend...

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Submitted on 2014 Apr 26 [4:48:33]