MDM Trouble Report for 2007 May 18

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Atlee (OSU)
Instrument: CCDS

Problem(s) Encountered:
When starting up, I was unable to locate the bright stars listed
in the observing program as tests of telescope pointing.  
Eventually I found an extremely bright (4th mag) star in the
Astronomer's Almanac that would show up unambiguously in the 
guide camera.  It appears that the TCS re-initialized to display 
coordinates in the current (2007.4) epoch instead of 2000 after
recovering from last night's lightning shutdown.  Once the TCS
coordinate epoch was corrected, I was able to set the RA/Dec
encoders and begin observing.

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Submitted on 2007 May 19 [5:09:49]