MDM Trouble Report for 2013 Oct 16

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Rhiannon Griffin (University of Oklahoma)
Instrument: OSMOS, R4k

Problem(s) Encountered:
I started off the night with sky flats and some long exposures (about 
10 minutes).  Many of my images looked weird and turned out bad.
Some looked like different sized images stacked on top of each other.
Others had horizontal sections that seemed more zoomed in, even the
background noise stripes had different widths.  It seemed like there
was an error with reading out.  After calling and discussing the 
issue with Eric, I tried several things.  Some test exposures worked
but the problem would return.  I tried restarting Prospero.  I tried
typing seqinit on the Raritan keyboard.  I tried closing Prospero,
the 4 terminal windows (IE, Caliban, ISIS, TCS), power cycling HE,
typing sequinit and restarting the terminals.  I also tried the 
previous steps, but also typing quit and CTRL+ALT+DEL on the Raritan
keyboard to restart that computer.  After this, when I took an
exposure of the sky, the image looked way different and the issue
seemed worse.  Where as before I could still see stars and some parts
of the exposure still looked normal, now the image just looked like
noise.  So I gave up on observing for the night and stowed the 
telescope.

I was able to take some usable sky flats and 3 good, long exposures.

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Submitted on 2013 Oct 17 [5:32:33]