MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2016 Apr 16

Observer(s): Godoy
Institution(s): Ohio State

Instrument: OSMOS

Worked for 7 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

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

Observing Summary:

(Erik, this is the same I wrote in the email I sent tonight)
I was not able to take any valuable data tonight. 
I think I started OK, taking the lamps calibrations, and then 
getting the focus. I'm mostly sure I did the (initial) pointing 
right, however I was not able to find some of the targets, while 
others I did find without problems (I'm not sure why this 
happened). When I tried to take a spectrum, things started to 
not-work (due to my inexperience). I was not able to get a guiding
 star in the  guider  monitor, and then I could not see the target
 when the slit was  on . I tried to get a guide star anyway 
(using the values of dx and dy that I calculated), and I think 
doing that  I screwed up the pointing. After that I could not 
see the targets were they were supposed to be, and not even 
 starting again from the beginning  (sending telescope at 
zenith and getting the nearest bright star) could help things. 
I think the pointing is just way off, but I was not able to fix
 it. Around 3:30am I just gave up, and just made sure to close 
everything correctly. I'm attaching the log file, where I wrote
 detailed notes on what I was doing, and hopefully this will
 help fix the errors I made.

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Submitted on 2016 Apr 17 [5:09:46]