MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2014 Feb 27

Observer(s): Holoien
Institution(s): Ohio State

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 11 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Seeing 1.9 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Overcast, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

Clouds grew thicker throughout the night coming from the west. Closed up at 4:45 am as clouds had grown too thick to observe anything.
Some wind gusts in the 20mph range early in the night, but the wind settled down as the night went on.
No problems besides the weather.
During observation at UT 9:44, saw error message in the TCS GUI during observation:  Send failed for command track: Network operation timed out.  Don't think it affected anything, but reporting it just in case.

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Submitted on 2014 Feb 28 [5:21:33]