MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2018 Jun 06

Observer(s): John Thorstensen
Institution(s): Dartmouth

Instrument: modspec + echelle

Worked for 9 hours (all night)
Conditions were Non-Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 1+ arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 1+ arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   End: Seeing 1+ arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate

Observing Summary:

Good night, seeing mostly OK and almost (but not quite) clear -
some bits of cirrus around certainly.  Everything worked well.

Some grist for the manual -- I'm reasonably sure that if you 
don't disengage the autoguider before slewing, the slew will 
stall and fail (though the dome keeps going).  The cure is 
obviously to disengage the autoguider before slewing; to back
out of a failed slew, hit the stop icon (not sure this is 
needed but it doesn't hurt), send the coordinates again so the 
HA field in Next Object fills in, and Start Slew again.

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Submitted on 2018 Jun 7 [5:16:31]