MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2013 Jul 05

Observer(s): Milisavljevic, Drout, Villar
Institution(s): Harvard, MIT

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 4 hours (off and on through the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Overcast, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Overcast, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Followed procedure for lightning shutdown at beginning of night.
When bringing systems back online, xmis would not initialize. This
was fixed by cycling power (thank Eric!). Had issues with reading
out images. Resolved this by following the IC-to-Caliban transfer
disk error recovery procedure. 

Prospero status window would not refresh correctly. Gradually less
and less of the information was being displayed. Things continued
to work so didn't pursue resolving this matter and still remains an
issue.

Clouds were not too thick and we managed to observe some bright
SN targets. Around 1:15am it was too thick and we closed.

We re-opened around 2:30am. Conditions were good: not too many
clouds and seeing was ~ 1  at times. This is when the fun
started.

Overall not too bad of a first night.

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Submitted on 2013 Jul 6 [5:05:45]