MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2012 Oct 04

Observer(s): De Rosa, Fausnaugh
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: OSMOS

Worked for 10 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable, Bright Moon
   End: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm, Bright Moon

Observing Summary:

Cirrus clouds all night.

At the beginning of the night we had some issues focusing the 
telescope.  Solved later, thanks to Rebecca.

At 04:15 UTC, Prospero complained about the disperser wheel
(couldn't find the disperser wheel).  Following the trouble
shooting, we tried to reset the disperser, but the error
persisted.  Called Bob and Rebecca.  Rebecca figured out that
it was a hardware problem.  As per instructions, we 
cycled the power on the OSMOS IE box, and restarted TCS, MIS, 
and the data acquisition software.  Everything came back to 
life, but filter2 (currently empty) was not recognized 
(which caused some scripts to fail at first).

The second half of the night went very smoothly, we obtained
plenty of data.



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Submitted on 2012 Oct 5 [5:46:35]