MDM Trouble Report for 2005 Nov 25

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Prieto (OSU)
Instrument: CCDS

Problem(s) Encountered:
The first problem was something ocurred to me once before with
CCDS, in the first calibrations images (flat + lamp), just before 
starting a long exposure. This first two files were not saved
in the directory /lhome/data/, even though I did the integrations
and it said it was writing out the files. 

After this I quited from Prospero and Caliban and restarted all 
again. All was fine again with the exception that I had to 
reset the usual parameters of the instrument: grooves, order, 
central wavelength. The grating tilt was fine as before. Well, 
I decided to do the calibrations and take the first spectrum 
without resetting the parameters for the first headers and 
change this after because it was taking me too much time. The 
first images were saved in /lhome/data/, all was working 
fine. So, now the problems started when I reentered the 
parameters in Prospero. I changed the central wavelength
to its original value (5700 AA, it said 0 AA after I 
reinitialized), the grating tilt changed and here is were 
the real problems started. I tried the command  grattilt  
in Prospero but it didn't work. After a few more tries 
with null results I decided to call Bob Barr to ask him 
what to do. 

In summary, it looks like its a hardware problem and the 
IE is not working.
    
 

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Submitted on 2005 Nov 25 [8:43:29]