MDM Trouble Report for 2008 Jan 21

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Denney and Grier (OSU)
Instrument: CCDS

Problem(s) Encountered:
First off, we experienced the same minor problems as last night:
1.) CCDOPS locked up on us again, and we had to cycle the power
on the camera and restart the computer.  I'm not sure why this 
keeps happening.  I've only had this happen once before in all
my runs, and now this had been several times in two nights.

2.) Prospero lost communication with the IE, so any command we 
typed in was not executed.  Typing  seqinit  on the IC again fixed
this problem.

The other problem we had, which we've actually been experiencing 
since the IC was brought down from the 2.4m to fix our previous
problems with CCDS readout, is that there's still an apparent 
readout error, but only column 1200 is affected.  Because this
didn't affect our data at all (I'll trim the first few and last
few columns during reduction anyway) and it's been the weekend, 
I haven't mentioned this problem previously, but someone should
still probably look into it.  I'll get some example images to
Rick Pogge at OSU as soon as I return.  Also, I didn't try to do
anything to fix this problem - so it could possibly be
a simple fix.  Regardless, I thought I should mention it.

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Submitted on 2008 Jan 21 [5:34:22]