MDM Trouble Report for 2005 Nov 1

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Marshall (OSU)
Instrument: CCDS+retrocam

Problem(s) Encountered:
TCS crashed around 8pm, I noticed this because the guider stopped working.  
The TCS computer apparently stopped receiving commands from the guider, 
and the clock also stopped updating.  Bob talked me through rebooting the 
pc and it seems fine now.

Because the telescope encoders are so far off, I lost about an hour trying to get 
the telescope repointed.

Another problem we noted is that prospero showed an error message when CCDS 
was idle for more than an hour in the afternoon.  This happened 3 times 
yesterday but not at all during the night.  The error is recoverable by typing 
seqinit on the IC and status on prospero.

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Submitted on 2005 Nov 2 [5:08:41]