MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2009 Sep 12

Observer(s): K. Schlesinger
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 3 hours (last half of the night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 7 pm until ~2 am.
   Beg: Overcast, Winds Calm, Thunderstom
   Mid: Overcast, Winds Calm, Intermittent rain
   End: Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Thunderstorms with lots of rain for the first half of the night. Had 
to do a lightning shut down! Second half of the night the weather calmed 
down and I was able to open up around 2:45 am. After that 
some patchy clouds, but not bad. 
When I rebooted everything from the lightning shutdown I encountered 
the IC to Caliban write error (where it complains about filenames already 
existing) but was able to fix that easily using the manual. Also, 
one weird problem is that I think after rebooting the tracking is 
off. It was set to 15.02 upon rebooting and when I would take 
calibrations the guide star would be quite far from where it was 
originally. A note on teh monitor instructed me to try tracking at 15.06 instead, 
which seemed to alleviate the problem slightly. If there is a 
more accurate number, I would appreciate knowing it! Thanks!

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Submitted on 2009 Sep 13 [5:59:20]