MDM Trouble Report for 2013 Jun 07

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): John Thorstensen (Dartmouth)
Instrument: Andor direct

Problem(s) Encountered:
The telescope did some nodding early in the night -- the so-called
nod is more like spasmodic north-south jerking, actually.  Didn't
lose much time, but of course it's mighty annoying!

Where I did lose time was around 2:30 AM when Hill apparently
crashed, taking the telescope down with it.  I stopped an 
integration, and lost it -- the Andor software doesn't let 
you save the data cube so far, but I think the data were
not going to be good enough anyway, so no great loss.

Symptom was that the telescope stopped tracking, and the GUI
gave an error message that it couldn't contact the telescope
server. I tried to ssh to hill but got a 'no route to host' 
error.  I went down there and found hill was not listed
on the Raritan, so I powered hill down by hand and turned
it back on, and restarted rtel.  Amazingly, the telescope
still knew where it was. 

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Submitted on 2013 Jun 8 [5:13:18]