MDM Trouble Report for 2006 Nov 9

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): L. Watson (OSU)
Instrument: CCDS and Retrocam

Problem(s) Encountered:
1) At UT 22:24, I had to use the xferall command to transfer my
images from Cailban.

2) At 3:50am local time, the telescope got hung up during a move.  It
got really close to my object, so I couldn't tell that it didn't
complete the move.  I thought for awhile that the guiding
system wasn't working.  But eventually I noticed that there
weren't asterisks in the Next Object Hour Angle section of TCS
and just stopped the telescope and re-sent my coordinates as it
says to do in the manual.  Not too bad.  On the bright side, I 
had to ABORT a Retrocam sequence here and it didn't freeze.

3) I'm not sure if it's related, but about ten minutes later I was
on an object, guiding and taking an image, when the telescope
started moving in RA.  I eventually just sent my coordinates
again and hit GO and everything was fine.  I don't know what
happened.  Maybe it had just been hung up again for a little
while and was just then completing the move (I guess the guide 
star would have had to have been really stable for this to 
be the case or else I would have lost guiding like I did in the
previous situation).

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Submitted on 2006 Nov 9 [7:20:41]