MDM Trouble Report for 2013 Nov 26

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): James  Runge, Marat Musin (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Instrument: OSMOS+R4K

Problem(s) Encountered:
At the beginning of the night, when we tried to open the mirror covers,
we noticed that they did not open at all. We contacted Eric to see what
the problem could possibly be. We proceeded to move the COMPRESSOR/CYLINDER
valve to CYLINDER for 10 seconds and then moved it back to COMPRESSOR.
This had no effect. The pressure was at 80 kPa, which is normal. We slewed
the telescope to the west in order to see the mirror covers better. We noticed
that the East flap was overlapping on top of the North/South flaps. This means
that the mirror covers did not close in the proper order. We used a ladder to 
manually lift the obstructing flap so that the North/South mirror covers could
open. Once this was accomplished, the East/West covers proceeded to open normally.
When we shutdown for the night, we took care to make sure that the mirror covers
closed in the correct order, which they did. Of other interest, the values on
the  2.4m Air Conditioning System - Data Display  did not change all night. We 
realized this when the humidity displayed stayed at 55.1% while the humidity
on the WEATHER DISPLAY clearly changed throughout the night. Also, the motor to
the dropout shutter sounded abnormal when the dropout was almost closed. 

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Submitted on 2013 Nov 27 [5:17:42]