MDM Trouble Report for 2001 Feb 1

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Lepine, De Marco (Columbia)
Instrument: MkIII

Problem(s) Encountered:
As described in the night report, we experienced a few problems at the
beginning and end of the night with the dome position. At the beginning
of the night the dome did not follow the telescope, while at the
end of the night the dome did not return naturally to its sleep
position. At the start of the night it was realised that the yellow button was
off, which probably was the casue of the dome not moving. Switching it on
fixed the problem. At the end of the night we had to switch the
yellow button off and manually bring the dome to its rest position
at angle 320.

We suspect that the flat lamp does not work since we cannot obtain
any counts. The comp lamps work, though, which convinced us that
we are carrying out the procedure correctly.

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Submitted on 2001 Feb 1 [7:40:23]