MDM Trouble Report for 2011 Sep 3

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Paust (Whitman/Dartmouth)
Instrument: R4K

Problem(s) Encountered:
I'm writing this early just in case someone reads and can respond so we don't lose the entire night.

We are trying to do photometry of some bright stars which required defocusing the telescope.  Ran the  burst  command to try to move the focus by a few points but it instead increased by over 30.  Attempts to move it in the opposite direction have failed and our focus is stuck at 770.7 (started at approximately 760).

At the moment, we have out of focus doughnuts on screen and unusable images.

Tried calling Bob, but it was 10:10pm by the time we did and just got voicemail so he's probably asleep.

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Submitted on 2011 Sep 3 [22:28:20]