MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2010 Jul 05

Observer(s): Jessica Werk, Janet Colucci
Institution(s): University of Michigan 

Instrument: Direct + Nellie

Worked for 8 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

light clouds at sunset gave way to clear (photometric?) skies for all of the night. Due to a power failure
early in the afternoon, I rebooted all the systems before observing -- things seemed to go 
fairly smoothly, though I did have to re-point the telescope, and ccdcom was acting a bit
strange at first (the df nellie command failed a few times). Otherwise, it was a very 
productive night. 

A couple (unimportant, mostly) questions arose, and I couldn't find a quick answer in the manuals or elsewhere:
1. how do I change the TCS Telescope  Epoch  display? I read in the manual that  Clicking on the TCS display button
 produces a pop-up window , but I can't find a  TCS display  button anywhere! I'd love to 
be able to switch the Telescope epoch that's displayed to 2000, rather than 2010.51 (as it
is at present). 
2. How do I print logsheets? 
3. how do i get hiltner to beep at me, loudly, when it's done with an exposure? It wasn't
beeping at all...

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Submitted on 2010 Jul 6 [4:36:26]