MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2019 Jun 03

Observer(s): Wagner and Ierace
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: OSMOS

Worked for 9 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 1.9 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 1.7 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 1.5 arcsec, Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Very productive night of imaging and photometry of Galactic black hole candidates
and faint classical novae.  Tracking stopped working around 23:30 even though TCS
reported that it was functioning.  Had to restart the TCS.  Then guiding would not
work and ended up restarting the guider software as well.  Had serious guiding issues
afterwards.  Guide star would tend to drift out of the guide box regularly.  Pulled it back
by driving the telescope West.  RA track rate might not be right.  Later in the night it 
worked just fine however.   

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Submitted on 2019 Jun 4 [4:42:15]