MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observer's Report for 2007 Jun 12

Observer(s): McGreer
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: Echelle

Worked for 8 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Excellent observing conditions.  More observations of FIRST
sources, nice images under these conditions.  Also ran after a
GRB that was setting just after sunset.

At the very beginning of the night, the dome moved but did not
track the telescope.  An error message on the TCS said that
Auto Dome was off, but it was on.  I toggled the switch and it
corrected itself.

Just after midnight, TCS started reporting a host of errors
and the telescope became totally unresponsive.  I tried
reinitializing TCS and using the hand paddle to no avail.
After rebooting the (new) TCS computer the telescope got lost
and went to its hard limits.  I eventually recovered it
and was able to continue without further problems.  A lengthy
(upon request) trouble report follows.

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Submitted on 2007 Jun 13 [5:27:48]