MDM Trouble Report for 2012 Jan 16

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): John Thorstensen (Dartmouth)
Instrument: Modspec + Nellie

Problem(s) Encountered:
Three items to report:

1) The AC computer is showing flaky values (see graphs) and is
sometimes complaining that the input data must be corrupted.

2) The guider focus is way beyond the reach of the motor mike, 
and the resulting donuts are un-guidable.  I left the motor mike
at one end of its travel; it wants to go quite a bit farther.  
I would have fussed with it myself but only had a few minutes
of darkness left when I finally opened. 

3) I tried to rotate the instrument to about +30 for a target,
but the rotator refused to go past +20 or so.  I couldn't
see anything obvious that it was hanging up on. I was a little
south of the equator, about 2 hours west. 

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Submitted on 2012 Jan 17 [7:30:32]