MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2024 Sep 01

Observer(s): Fesen
Institution(s): Dartmouth

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: Clear, Winds Calm
   Mid: Clear, Winds Calm
   End: Clear, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Clouds cleared off around 7 pm. Seeing was around 1.7'' to start
but got better and was at times down to 1.2''. Mostly clear skies.

Encountered two problems. 1) telescope jumped to the north
by several arcsec twice (but guiding was not lost creating
double star images in direct images), and 
2) telescope jumped to the east once, with guiding lost. 
Both problems occurred when trying to take 3 x 1800 sec
 exposures. Got them but
took 6 tries to do it. Lost ~ 2 hours.
On the positive side, telescopes sets very well.

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Submitted on 2024 Sep 2 [6:54:09]