MDM Trouble Report for 2011 Jul 2

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Henderson (OSU)
Instrument: OSMOS

Problem(s) Encountered:
This is Jules Halpern writing:

The TCS program could not be exited in the prescribed manner
in the process of doing a lightning shutdown because the yellow 
telescope icon does not respond to the mouse.  Inexplicably, the 
telescope icon is the lower left corner of the screen, whereas its
usual position is in the upper left. So the TCS computer was shut
off anyway, without first quitting the program.  

When the system was brought back up around 1am, the telescope
would run away to the north when trying to point at the nearest
bright star.  It appeared that the Declination encoder was not
working.  It would update the coordinate when moving south,
but it would not update when moving north.  Observing could not 
proceed in this condition so we stowed the telescope, and reset
the encoder for the zenith position. 

The internet did not come up, even though the T1 router seemed
to be working.

In the morning I cycled the power on the T1 router, whioh
restored the connection.  I'm not sure why this was necessary.
Thus the delay in filing this report.  I also notified Bob
of the telescope problems by telephone.

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Submitted on 2011 Jul 3 [11:49:11]