MDM Trouble Report for 2014 Apr 29

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Terndrup (Ohio State)
Instrument: OSMOS/R4K

Problem(s) Encountered:
Guiding worked well once it was started properly.  On the relatively
rare occasions with good seeing, the telescope produced good
images.  There was a lot of wind shaking.

Late in the night the telescope would lose guiding by jumping or
moving about an arcminute or so N or S.  Possibly mostly N, but
I did not keep track.  This required us to keep a constant watch
on the guider.  The solution was to stop the guiding, tell the
telescope to go to the original pointing position, and restart.

Perhaps a half hour was lost and 1% of our images will be
affected.

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Submitted on 2014 Apr 30 [5:00:13]