19:45 Ready to open. Cart 2 plt 634 up the telescope. The mostly clear sky, but humidity gorwed rapidly up to 84% at the sunset. 20:50 telescope open, clear sky. we go to field and didn't find stars -probably the rotator's amplifier hasn't been reset. We axis init twice and found a fk5 star. All errors: 0 0 F Modu="mir_o_MoveOneGalil"; Text=" Sec returned an error message" 0 0 I Received="?GOCORR one or more axes did not end on a full step 0, 0, 0, 0, 1" 0 0 W Text="failed to adjust collimation and focus" has been ignored. Seeing varied from 2.5 - 3.4" (strong wind NE). After 5-th exposure we gived up with this plate and according to the SOS recomendation: QUICKEXTRACT: sdR-b2-00010729.fit: WARNING: Large flexure flat<->science (Post-calibs recommended!) we did postcalib as well. 23:20 cart 9 plt 644: gotoField bring us stars into the fibers at once. PT reports seeing about 4 arc sec! But we are trying wtih a new cartridge: 9 plt 644. 00:10 SOS reports S/N around 1 - the current seeing variable: 3.0" - 4.4" Very bad S/N for this cartridge. 01:42 Next cartidge 6 plt 656 on the telescope. 02:48 We lost the exposure due to the hardware fiducial reading problem (axies were halted): Aug 27 02:43:08 sdssmcp tLatch dsc_I_trcInfo az fiducial 15.69 deg Aug 27 02:43:08 sdssmcp tLatch dsc_I_trcInfo err = -3850915 poserr = -3850958 ticks first time occured on: Aug 27 01:56:54 sdssmcp tLatch dsc_E_trcErr Invalid barcode in azimuth: fididx = 12288, pos = 1096683686 Aug 27 02:01:55 sdssmcp tLatch dsc_I_trcInfo rot fiducial 35 (204.52) deg We didn't refiducilized the telescope in azimuth axis, since the telescope was still tracking and we've been collecting data.