MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2012 Sep 04

Observer(s): Thorstensen & Skinner Mangold
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: Modspec + Templeton

Worked for 0.3 hours (part of the night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   High Humidity from 20 MS until end.
   Beg: Overcast, Winds Calm
   Mid: Fog/Low Clouds, Winds Calm
   End: Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

OK but humid at start; opened long enough to get focus with the 
new instrument and take a test spectrum of a bright star, but
clouds rolled in and the humidity climbed. Rainstorm with some 
thunder later at night -- lightning shutdown.  Brought computers
back up afterward.  Began clearing up very late, but humidity
still very high.

No trouble, except for previously reported mirror A/C issue; did
not move the guide probe (on-sky time was extremely brief). Did
not attempt to use focus button since xtcs  set focus  widget
offers much the same functionality.

More or less as a joke, I'm tempted to issue a trouble report 
complaining that the font is too big in the new xtcs.  You 
can't see the whole coordinate string the way it's laid out 
now.  Since it's running on Hiltner, it's a little surprising 
that the appearance has changed.

[Forgot to submit this in the mental fog at the end of the 
night, but contacted Rick Pogge the next day and he kluged up
a fix to the xtcs fontsize issue, just like that!]

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Submitted on 2012 Sep 5 [20:17:31]