MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2017 Jun 26

Observer(s): Alper
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: Andor

Worked for 7 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:

KPNO's domes were closed at the beginning of the night, and as
per my remote observing rules, I did not open while they were
closed. However, a later check with the 2.4 m observers confirmed
that conditions were nice and that KPNO was likely being overly
cautious, and so we opened around 9:30 pm MST.

Everything ran smoothly until the end of the night, when, during
closing, the dome stopped receiving commands from the TCS GUI.
After raising the dropleaf an error appeared (which I foolishly
did not save when I tried resetting the TCS software), and after
that I could no longer raise or lower the dropleaf or slit
remotely. Luckily the 2.4 m observers were able to manually
close everything, and I've let Eric know about the problem.

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Submitted on 2017 Jun 27 [5:15:24]