MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2017 Oct 20

Observer(s): Fesen & Weil
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: Modspec + Echelle

Worked for 10 hours (all 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: Cirrus, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Cirrus, Winds Moderate
   End: Cirrus, Winds Moderate

Observing Summary:

Tonight was a better night of observing but still had its 
problems. Heavy cirrus at the beginning of the night, which 
cleared in the middle but then returned. 

The dome rotation is still an issue. We carefully watched the 
dome throughout the night to manually rotate because errors 
reached close to 18 degrees. We also had the dome runaway twice,
it went approximately 90 degrees before turning around and
returning to the correct position. 

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Submitted on 2017 Oct 21 [4:37:25]