MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2018 Oct 31

Observer(s): Weil & Podjed
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: Echelle

Worked for 7 hours (all night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 3:30 until .
   Beg: Seeing 3.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 3.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

The beginning of the night we had problems pointing 
the telescope, we were getting slew errors when we attempted to
point to targets. The problem went away after we drove the
telescope by hand to the zenith and just kept attempting to 
slew the telescope. In addition we had problems with data
acquisition in OWL when the connection was lost. This problem 
was solved when Eric rebooted mdmarc2. We encountered additional
pointing problems at 3:30am and could not fix the problem by
pointing to the zenith so we opted to close the telescope. 

Seeing at the beginning of the night was >3 . Seeing improved at
1:30am to ~1.5 . Closed at 3:30am due to pointing problems and
clouds. 

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Submitted on 2018 Nov 1 [4:10:47]