MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observing Report for 2020 Feb 18

Observer(s): Yuming Fu
Institution(s): PKU

Instrument: CCDS

No Observing (see comments below)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 23:30 until 06:30.

Observing Summary:

In-dome calibration from 17:50 to 18:30. Dome opened at 18:45. I lost
pointing of the telescope and could not identify any object soon after the 
obsevation began. I changed a few targets but still failed. Then I attempted
to zero the telescope according to Edmund's MDM 1.3m manual. I used 
 home  button in the TCS panel to home the telescope and got
 error where m_ha not homed . This error was solved after I homed ha axis 
and dec axis separately. Later I followed the command for zero telescope
from the mcgraw checklist (http://mdm.kpno.noao.edu/mcgraw-checklist.html).
While it worked at last, I could not continue the obsevation due to the clouds.
Dome closed at 04:15. The checklist turned out to be very important. And I 
might have avoided these troubles if I had followed it carefully. (Check the
pointing/position of the telescope before the observation.)

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Submitted on 2020 Feb 19 [7:16:50]