MDM Observatory 1.3m Telescope Observer's Report for 2005 Mar 11

Observer(s): Bentz
Institution(s): OSU

Instrument: CCDS

Worked for 8 hours (most of the night)
Conditions were Mixed most of the night.
Problems were encountered, see the separate trouble report for details.

Seeing and Weather:
   Clouds from 1800 until 2145.
   Beg: Overcast, Winds Calm
   Mid: Seeing 2 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm
   End: Seeing 2 arcsec, Cirrus, Winds Calm

Observing Summary:

Some nice thick clouds settled over the N and E part of the sky
right before sunset and they didn't go away until about 9:45pm 
or so.  I got started about 10 and discovered while trying to 
slew from my standard star to a target that the telescope 
wouldn't slew south. It would slew in any other direction, but 
would only go at the set speed in the southern direction while 
making a loud intermittent clicking noise.  Later in the night,
while trying to go south from a target at Dec +72, I held the
slew button down for a good 5 minutes, all the while moving
just slightly faster than the set speed and making that loud
clicking sound, when the telescope suddenly started moving at 
the slew speed again.  However, the next time I moved to a new 
target, it had stopped working and continued to not work 
throughout the rest of the night. 

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Submitted on 2005 Mar 12 [6:11:45]