MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2025 May 09

Observer(s): Oey et al.
Institution(s): Michigan

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 8.5 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:

Guider did not work from the start of tonight although was fine
last night.  Tried numerous things and ultimately found 2 issues:  
1) it doesn't recognize the location of the box you draw to identify
the guide star.  2) the guide probe stopped moving.  Restarted MIS
to solve 2) but 1) is still a problem.  Found that it wants the
GS to be way on the edge of the field, literally falling off the
field.  When moving the star in MIS to the center, the problem
happens again -- does not recognize the drawn box for GS.  
Rebooted MaximDL but did not help.

Also when closing down, the telescope would not stop tracking!
Moved to zenith by setting HA track rate to 0, but the tel 
continued tracking.  Tried numerous things, but nothing helped.
Finally stopped it by the hard switch.  Dome covers also would
not respond to TCS and had to be activated by hard switch.
So turned all switches off.

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Submitted on 2025 May 10 [5:41:29]