MDM Trouble Report for 2012 Dec 09

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Jacob brown, Marat Musin, James Runge (University of Missouri Columbia)
Instrument: OSMOS

Problem(s) Encountered:
At around 9 pm it was noted that the Telescope Air Conditioning 
System Computer showed that the Primary mirror temperature shoot 
up to funny temperatures (40 degrees C). The temperature display 
stayed up for the entire night around 20 Degrees Celsius. We 
stopped observing for 30 minutes when first noticing this 
problem because we were not sure if this was a real problem or 
just the temperature sensor malfunctioning. After consulting 
the support staff (Bob), we kept observing.

Also when closing up for the night the dome did not get fully 
back to home. We had to use the emergency power to close the 
dome. However we were not able to rotate the dome back fully 
onto the contacts. When we first tried to shut the dome using the 
emergency power the  circuit breaker flipped and we flipped it back 
on and tried again and it worked fine to get the dome closed

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Submitted on 2012 Dec 10 [7:59:58]