MDM Observatory 2.4m Telescope Observing Report for 2025 May 10

Observer(s): Oey, Astro 461
Institution(s): Michigan

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 5 hours (first half of the 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, Dust

Observing Summary:

The guider still is not working.  I was hoping to be able to find
the GS on the edge of the field, but now it's not showing up at all.

Also the pointing was way off, even though we re-initialized the
pointing on bright stars.  It finally seemed that it was not
retaining the position of the star in the  Next object  field --
when revising the position, the coords in  Next object  also changed
therefore when updating the tel coords, nothing changed.  Maybe
this is normal, but it's not mentioned in the documentation.
Unfortunately we were closed by dust before we were able to fully
test our new pointing.

The toilet in Room 1 has broken.  It is not filling with water,
and it doesn't seem to be due to a leak, i.e., it is not 
continuously running (which is good).  The occupants are flushing
by dumping in water by hand.

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Submitted on 2025 May 11 [4:52:27]