MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2016 Dec 26

Observer(s): Halpern, Li
Institution(s): Columbia

Instrument: OSMOS

Worked for 12.5 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.7 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Light & Variable
   Mid: Seeing 1.7 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1.7 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

It was a very productive night despite the following issues,
not rising to the level of a trouble report, since we neither
tried to fix them, nor did they impede our work much.  The
dome encoder still misbehaves.  We worked around it without
disconnecting the encoder box.  One time the telescope
jumped a couple of arcseconds to the west.  This also happened
once a couple of nights ago.  Maybe the tracking motor
is having a problem as it is noisy all the time.    
Finally, the yellow button seems to have burned out.


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Submitted on 2016 Dec 27 [6:22:49]