MDM Trouble Report for 2012 Sep 24

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Colon (UH)
Instrument: 4K

Problem(s) Encountered:
Around 10:15 pm the TCS lost connection to the server.  I waited a bit for the connection to come back but it did not.  
I tried restarting the TCS gui and that didn't work.  I then tried typing  telescope start  in a terminal and noted that a connection to hill could not be established.
I then checked the computer room and saw that hill was off for some reason.  I powered hill up and eventually got things working again.
However, I lost over an hour of observing time between troubleshooting and then having to set up the pointing for the telescope again, since I again encountered a 13+ minutes offset in the east/west tilt after the TCS was restarted.

There were power glitches earlier in the evening, but they seemed to occur much earlier than whenever hill shut down...

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Submitted on 2012 Sep 24 [23:38:07]