MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2024 Jun 11

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

Instrument: OSMOS

Worked for 8 hours (all night)
Conditions were Photometric most of the night.
No equipment or software problems were encountered.

Seeing and Weather:
   Beg: Seeing 3 arcsec, Clear, Winds Moderate
   Mid: Seeing 1.8 arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable
   End: Seeing 1.5- arcsec, Clear, Winds Light & Variable

Observing Summary:

A perfectly clear night, but with poor seeing for the first 
couple of hours.  This improved.  

I had a somewhat glitchy start - the strange oscillating behavior
occurred again in the late afternoon when I sent the telescope a
bit east of zenith (in order to rotate the dome to shield the 
telescope from the setting sun).  It never happened during the 
night, though.  For some reason Maxim DL refused to pop a guide
window on the first standard star, so I crashed the program 
figuring I could restart it, but then realized I was a bit 
out of my depth, so I called Eric who resolved the issue almost
instantly by logging on and restarting the program.  

The dome didn't give any trouble, but I don't think I tracked
any targets in the northeast where the problems occurred before.

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Submitted on 2024 Jun 12 [5:13:53]