MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2014 Jul 01

Observer(s): Hainline, Carroll, Jones
Institution(s): Dartmouth College

Instrument: OSMOS

Worked for 9 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.0 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.0 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

We observed all of our targets on a night of excellent observing conditions. We did
have a problem wherein JSkyCalc was relaying guide probe X and Y positions to
the guide probe, which moved, but no star appeared in the position. The angle was 
indeed set to the rotation angle that the telescope was at, but the probe was not 
picking up any objects. We just moved the probe around until we found a bright 
star, and guiding worked. This only happened at around halfway through the night, 
and by the end, we were able to find the guide stars with minimal difficulty. I 
don't know what to do besides what we did if the guide probe is not correctly 
finding guide stars through JSkyCalc. 

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Submitted on 2014 Jul 2 [5:21:57]