MDM Trouble Report for 2012 Mar 13

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): J. Skowron & J. Bae (OSU & Univ. Michigan)
Instrument: CCDS

Problem(s) Encountered:
Guide camera was disconnected 3 times: MaxIm DL 5 Pro reported  No Camera  and stopped guiding. To fix this we went to Status tab and push  Disconnect  button, and next push  Connect  button and this seamed to work. 
It is possible that this was connected to previous crash of MaxIm DL 5 Pro, which happened after choosing  Help Topics...  from the  Help  menu.

We also encountered an error in Prospero:
ERROR: MDM TCS link not enabled

to fix this we stopped and started the telescope, and issued telinit. 
In the process we lost pointing. We followed the procedures from the manual to put telescope to zenith and look at Tilt sensors, but we had problems achieving good pointing. At the end we found that tilt sensors should not show 0.00 when telescope is in zenith. Rather North/South sensor should show -0.04.


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Submitted on 2012 Mar 14 [5:53:09]