MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2011 Jun 17

Observer(s): John Thorstensen
Institution(s): Dartmouth College

Instrument: Nellie direct + Buckeye FW

Worked for 9 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1+ arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 1+ arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Moderate
   End: Seeing 1+ arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

A reasonably good night - some patchy high cloud, and a bit 
breezy at the start, but the seeing was reasonable and it was
almost photometric -- close enough for rough purposes.  The air
was a bit turbid due to windblown dust -- Bobaquivari was 
noticeably dim.  

No troubles save for one weird glitch at the very end.  I went
to home the dome during the slew to zenith -- I think -- and the 
dome ended up sitting around azimuth 40 and claiming it was at
home!  I manually set the dome on the contacts and re-set the 
dome coordinate to 320.  After I closed the dome I ran it back
and forth a little bit manually and the position readout 
appeared to respond normally, so hopefully this was a one-time 
freak event of some kind.  

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Submitted on 2011 Jun 18 [5:30:35]