MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2017 Jan 27

Observer(s): Jessica Klusmeyer
Institution(s): MDM

Instrument: OSMOSB4k

Worked for 14 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate, var seeing
   Mid: Seeing 3+ arcsec, Clear, Winds High, var seeing
   End: Seeing 3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate, var seeing

Observing Summary:

Tonight wasn't so bad

Clear sky, winds were moderate/high all night but opened with no problems.
Seeing was variable entire night.  


Focus took less time than yesterday but believe that to be because no TCS issues tonight
stars still have slight coma-like appearance


Mirror covers opened without a problem also without a delay


Dome encoders were an issue again.  During observation dome would
get confused and think it was suddenly in a different spot and try to
correct.  These were large errors, Dome Azimuth 37 to 270.  Went out 
and read dome position and reset encoder, dome moved to correct position but
this happened all night however much preferred to manually moving 
the dome in the cold.  Dome went to correct home position at end of observations.



Halfway through the night winds picked up.
During an exposures guide star was bouncing around in tracking box, believe winds were moving scope.
Changed the aggressiveness in guider setting which seemed to help a little.



No technical problems, much better night than before!

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Submitted on 2017 Jan 28 [7:35:44]