MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2018 Feb 06

Observer(s): Hodges-Kluck, Li
Institution(s): Michigan

Instrument: Templeton

Worked for 10 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   High Winds from 8 until 10.
   Beg: Seeing 2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate, dust
   Mid: Seeing 2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

The beginning of the night was windy with blowing dust, 
so we shut down about 1 hour after sunset and re-opened about 90
minutes later. The rest of the night was calm and clear.

When we tried to close the dropleaf, the telescope returned: 
'ERROR dropleaf adam read digits error E027F00'
and the dropleaf did not close. Stopping/starting the telescope
program fixed this.

At one point, the telescope threw a 'point did not converge'
error and for a while thereafter there were rapid shifts in 
Dec that prevented long exposures. Restarting the TCS control
panel and slewing to another target, then back, fixed the 
problem.



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Submitted on 2018 Feb 7 [7:06:38]