MDM Trouble Report for 2003 Apr 14

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): S. Lepine (Columbia/AMNH)
Instrument: MkIII Spectrograph

Problem(s) Encountered:
1- At 8:00PM, computer /tambora/ crashed and spontaneously
   rebooted itself, for no apparent reason. Once rebooted,
   CCDCOM was restarted without any problem, and observations
   were resumed.

2- A  jerky  North-South motion of the telescope was
   observed again for targets at low declinations (see
   last night's trouble report). Only this time, the
   telescope was observed to suddently move *south* by 
   about 30 seconds of arc before slowly returning to 
   its initial position (last night, all sudden motions 
   were *north*).

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Submitted on 2003 Apr 15 [6:14:37]