MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2019 Jul 23

Observer(s): Clarkson, Fiolka, Boyd
Institution(s): UM-Dearborn

Instrument: ANDOR

No Observing (see comments below)
Bad weather most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Rain all night.

Observing Summary:

No technical problems but we did not even open due to weather.
Overcast throughout; rained about half the night. We saw 
(non-fork) lightning at about 01:15am (and repeatedly in 
the all-sky camera at about that time), so performed a 
lightning shutdown of the 2.4m as a precaution. (The 1.3m is 
already shut down.)

Airbags were not included in the lightning shutdown; the 
telescope was set at HA -1 (to prevent water pooling in the 
event of a dome leak), and we were hesitant to deflate the 
airbags with the telescope at this position. (From the 
documentation, we *think* it's safe to shut off the airbags 
even with the telescope far from zenith as long as the 
telescope is not then moved, but would appreciate confirmation 
on this issue.)

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Submitted on 2019 Jul 24 [4:13:44]