MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2016 Apr 01

Observer(s): Mario Mateo
Institution(s): University of Michigan

Instrument: Eyepiece

Worked for 4 hours (all night)
Conditions were Mixed 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:

Tested the eyepieces and access issues.  Everything seemed 
to work fine.  I only observed until about midnight having 
scouted out all potential targets for the star party tonight.
Seeing started out good (about 1 arcsec?) but became more 
variable as the night progressed.  Seemed marginally photo-
metric at best most of the night.

Questions:  -- Is the only way to stop a slew to push the 
emergency stop button?  That is, the GUI does not have a 
stop command, correct?

-- Can the floor lowering rate be bumped up a bit?  It is 
very slow now (for safety reasons). I think even 2x faster 
would still be plenty safe.

-- How does one zero the coords on a target?  The zero 
dialog does not work on the TCS and the 'zero' command does 
not appaar to update the coords.  I was forced to always do 
a 2.5 arcmin offset after slewing to a position.


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Submitted on 2016 Apr 2 [8:51:17]