Observing last night ended up so-so… Closed for the first hour or two of the night, we finally opened. Only to discover we couldn’t slew to the source! We spent lots of time trying to determine the source of the issue, finally learning it was the instrument rotator limits. Eventually we made our way over to the correct portion of the sky and were able to take calibration data on an A0V star. After that, we moved over to a Quasar selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and began taking data. About halfway through, the telescope operator informed us that the weather had turned sour and the dome needed to be closed.. All in all, we got roughly 15 minutes of integration on the quasar. Not as much as hoped, but perhaps enough to make an initial evaluation of the science case.
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