MDM Trouble Report for 2007 Nov 8

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): J. Prieto and L. Watson (OSU)
Instrument: OSU

Problem(s) Encountered:
1) The dreaded CCDS bias pattern reared its ugly head again.  Tony helped us clean
some connections before he had to leave, but that didn't help.  We then changed
the position of the HE power plug in its power strip and that somehow got rid of the
problem (this worked for Jason before so we tried it too).

2) The telescope seemed to be drifting East while we were taking sky flats more than 
normal.  But we're not sure if this is the case or if we just haven't realized it before.

Actually neither of those caused us to lose any time.  We lost about 15 minutes
when we realized that the CCDS slit was E-W when we needed N-W.  We 
rotated the instruments and continued on.  Ooops!  Hopefully the data before the 
switch will still be somewhat useful.

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Submitted on 2007 Nov 9 [6:01:26]