MDM Trouble Report for 2009 Jan 1

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Tom Brink (University of Michigan)
Instrument: 4K

Problem(s) Encountered:
Two unrelated problems occurred last night.

First, I noticed that there appears to be a bug with the  offset RA 
and  offset dec  line in the tcs gui.  While pointing I tried to 
do an offset of (RA,DEC)=(0 ,400 ) using the offset line of the 
gui.  When I executed this command, it did not move the telescope 
to the north, it moved to the Northeast, at about a 45 degree angle.
I then tried an offset of (0 ,-400 ) to get back where I started.
But it moved the telescope to the Southeast at about a 45 degree angle.
Several other attempts to use this line of the gui to make offsets
also resulted in (seemingly) random behavior.  The pop-up  Paddle 
gui from the tcs gui works as expected.  So this is what I eventually 
used.

The second problem I had was with the power supply for the guide camera.
Three times during the night I noticed the guide star slowly fading away
over a period of 5-10 minutes.  The first time I saw this I thought it
was just clouds.  So I waited for them to pass, but they never did.
I looked outside, and it seemed fairly clear, so I suspected 
something was wrong with the guider.  It seems as though the power supply
was slowly falling asleep.  The fix I found was to wake it up by 
turning the  Camera Intensity  dial up and down a little bit.  With in 
a few seconds the guide star reappeared as before. 

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Submitted on 2009 Jan 28 [8:22:30]