MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2018 Aug 10

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

Instrument: OSMOS/B

Worked for 7 hours (all night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from start until 10.
   Beg: Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.8 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.6 arcsec, Patchy Clouds, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Then night started with clouds and lightning. Went through
the lightning shutdown procedure for both telescopes.
Was able to get on sky sometime after 10. There were
some clouds throughout the night, but overall didn't lose
too much time. 

At one point in the night the dome seemed to struggle to
find the correct azimuth. I was moving to a different
target and the dome stopped a few times until it finally
found the correct position on its own. Not sure what that
is about. 

Also for future reference, one should not have the TCS
adjust the telescope focus with temperature while trying
to run the focus4k routine. It will go to the temperature-
based focus as opposed to the next step in the propsero
script. That is what it seemed like, anyway.

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Submitted on 2018 Aug 11 [5:59:27]