MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2017 Oct 28

Observer(s): Rupert
Institution(s): MDM

Instrument: OSMOS/B

Worked for 11 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.2 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.4 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

There was a weird moment when I tried to slew the telescope 
to a new object in the southern sky, but it instead went to
its western limit. I used the hand paddle to get it out to
HA about 3, then tried to slew again, and again it went for
western limit. I manually sent it to zenith, closed the TCS
window, started it up again, and that seemed to work.

Later on the auto dome stopped working. I am not sure what
could have happened, and simply sending it home and
restarting the software wasn't enough. I ended up flipping
the auto dome switch on the chassis off then on again,
booted the software and that seemed to do the trick.

Other than these two glitches the night was fine. The
instrument rotator was again off, this time by -15.7 degrees
by night's end. It has gotten increasingly harder throughout 
each of the nights on this run to find a guide star, 
as a result.

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Submitted on 2017 Oct 29 [6:46:15]