MDM Trouble Report for 2008 Apr 2

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): L. Watson (OSU)
Instrument: CCDS

Problem(s) Encountered:
I encountered three minor problems last night:

1) At UT 01:49, I tried to change the wavelength center using
 center 6000.   Prospero took a long time and finally did not
change the wavelength and gave the error:

 Error: requested operation timed out.  Center command aborted
with errors. 

I ran seqinit on the IC computer in the computer room and also 
ran  startup  in prospero.  I'm not sure which one of these 
helped, but the center command and Prospero worked well after 
that.

2) This one is very minor, but about three times during the 
night, a GUI would pop up in CCDOPSS that said  Receive
timeout.   I just hit okay and restarted the focus sequence and 
everything was fine (no computer restarts or camera power cycling
necessary).

3) At UT~08:45, I think the finder mirror got stuck when 
moving from the  in  position out.  However, it could also be
that I was doing something stupid.  I've listed more details
of the situation to help determine if it was me or the mirror 
that was at fault.

More details: with the guide probe at the  center  position, I
saw my bright standard star in the guider monitor and placed 
it such that it should have been near but not in the slit when I
moved the probe out of the science beam.  But when I moved the 
guide probe out of the science beam, I could not see the object
or any of the stars in the same field on the slit viewer camera.
I moved the guide probe around and I'm sure I had the finder 
mirror out during this process.  I moved the finder mirror in 
and back out once more and my star came into view on the slit 
viewer camera. 

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Submitted on 2008 Apr 3 [5:59:46]