MDM Trouble Report for 2012 Feb 18

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Fiorenza and Hawkins (CUNY GC and Ohio Univ.)
Instrument: CCDS

Problem(s) Encountered:
At the beginning of the night when we were initially trying to
point the telescope to a new target, the telescope would not slew
and we received an error in the MDM 1.3 Control Panel - telescope 
would not respond to point command. The problem was that we were
asking the telescope to point to HA=##:##:## dec=##:##:##, and the
variables should be typed in lower case letters like so: ha=##:##:
## dec=##:##:##. A second problem arose a bit later when we could 
not find the slit on the image taken by the acquisition camera.
This problem was solved by increasing the exposure time. A third
problem arose when Prospero started acting up so I restarted it. 
After the restart, doagn would take exposures for only 300 seconds.
I could not figure out how to increase the exposure time. Fortunately
this happened at the end of the night and only cost me a few images.


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Submitted on 2012 Feb 19 [5:23:11]