MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2014 Mar 28

Observer(s): Schiminovich, Hamden, Gordon, Ong
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: Proto-Chas

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 2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

After some initial dumbness with the telescope pointing (moving the
 platform which shuts off the TCS) we were able to take some good data
 tonight. We did have some trouble with the pointing- we were able to
 use retro-cam to roughly center the galaxy in the FOV, then adjust the 
guide star info to get the right star chart, and finally adjusted the pointing 
to put the galaxy in the center of CHaS. The pointing process is laborious.
 Additionally, the guider stars were more focused than last night, but not 
perfectly focused. So on Monday we will probably want to adjust things again. 

Also- the Neon Lamp seemed to stop working on us. We had been able
 to take neon lamps earlier in the night (at 10:43 pm) but then we tried 
again at 12:07 and it seemed to not be working or potentially flickering 
in and out. Not sure what happened.  We have been using Hg-Ne instead.

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Submitted on 2014 Mar 29 [4:32:52]