MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2013 Nov 09

Observer(s): Frank & Holoienen
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: OSMOS

Worked for 12 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 0.8 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 0.8 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 0.8 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Good part first : we were able to solve our acquisition problem 
(by realising that the rotation had been changed, and hence by 
simply switching signs and dx <-> dy, everything worked perfectly
well -- could have been achieved by a simple initialisation, 
probably, too. Why yesterday however sometimes half or double the
indicated values were necessary, remains mysterious.)

At one point, a severe loss of guiding & tracking lead the telescope heading 
towards a potentially bad spot, see separate trouble report for details.  

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Submitted on 2013 Nov 10 [7:45:46]