MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2017 Mar 25

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

Instrument: OSMOS R4K

Worked for 4 hours (last half of the night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds all night.
   Beg: Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.3 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Mostly clear at dinner went to the 1.3m and in 10 min sky was mostly covered 
Clouds were not threatening but not clear enough to collect data

Around 2200 things started to clear up enough to open


tried to open and noticed images were not in focus  (see trouble report)
found issue with the air bag computer, reset which appeared to work

then pointing was off and took more time to fix

moving to the first target prospero displayed IC down and TCS failure 
thought it was an actual problem but resetting prospero and tcinit displayed IC and TC Up


No other problems for the rest of the night!






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Submitted on 2017 Mar 26 [6:26:54]