MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2013 May 12

Observer(s): Oey
Institution(s): Michigan

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 7.5 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Clear, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Clear, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

Lost about 20 minutes at start of night because accidentally killed 
XTCS GUI.  Took quite some time flipping through all the documentation
to find out how to restart it.  I think I finally found that it's
in the pull-down menu from my old notes, not any of the notebooks and 
cheat sheets.  In general the hodge-podge of documentation is
overwhelming and very difficult to use, both for just operating
and also troubleshooting.  

As an aside, one of the students commented that  there are so
many Emergency info things posted that I wouldn't know which
one to look at in an emergency 

Other than that, everything went fine.  The plastic tie on the
dewar needle broke while we were holding it, but we found the
extra ties and put a new one on.

Student quote:   spectroscopic data is awesome 



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Submitted on 2013 May 13 [5:04:38]