MDM Trouble Report for 2004 Dec 2

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Tibbetts (Michigan)
Instrument: TIFKAM

Problem(s) Encountered:
The initial problem of the night was tambora crashing, which
was resolved by restrting tambora and IC.

Shortly after this occured, though, I noted that the RA displayed
oon the telescope control system was changing, despite the fact
that the telescope was clearly tracking the object I was observing.

I first tried turning off tracking, and nothing changed, as
expected.  Then I tried moving the telescope east/west.  The
telescope moved fine, however the RA did not change in response,
and instead just continued changing with the sidereal time, and
there was no change in the hour angle.  TCS did respond to
changes in declination, though.

No amount of turning the controls in the dome off and on helped
anything.

Next I tried quiting and re-initializing xmis and xtcs.  This
led to the discovery that when trying to initialize xmis, it
stalls trying to initialize the guider and then crashes.

We tried power cycling the MIS computer to no avail.  And we also
checked that the cables going into MIS were secure, and checked
all of its fuses.

At that point I couldn't think of anything else to try and
shut down for the night.

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Submitted on 2004 Dec 3 [2:09:23]