MDM Trouble Report for 2014 Jan 03

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Michael Fausnaugh (OSU)
Instrument: CCDS

Problem(s) Encountered:
After slewing to the first standard star (fairly early in
twilight), there was a large N-S wobble, with amplitude of
10 arcseconds.  The spectra for this star are spread over 50 lines
on the detector, are most likely unusable.  After slewing to the
second source, the wobble stopped, with no more nodding all night.

In addition, the TCS agent link went down several times.  Our scripts
reconfigure the telescope to take Xe lamps while it slews-- if we
slew with JSkycalc, it appears to shut down the TCS agent just
as the finder mirror finishes moving to the  IN  position.  
This problem was solved by typing  tcinit  and then  tcstatus 
in the TCS agent terminal.  No time was lost for this problem.
Slewing with the catalog on the TCS GUI does not have this problem.

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Submitted on 2014 Jan 4 [6:17:49]