MDM Trouble Report for 2014 Jan 20

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Mudd and Simonian (Ohio State)
Instrument: CCDS

Problem(s) Encountered:
During observation, the TCSLINK on the Prospero Status window turned 
red for  inactive .  Tried calling tscstatus and tcinit, which 
initially worked, but during the next exposure/object, their were 
multiple issues in observing scripts indicating that there was 
not proper communication with tcs.  Any other commands would then 
hang, so we pointed the telescope to zenith and began a restart of 
the IC computer.  After several attempts, we got the tcslink 
reestablished and were able to continue observing.  On our second 
object after getting started again, however, once again our 
scripts started to hang and Prospero indicated that it could not 
communicate with telescope.  We then closed all the tcstools and 
started from scratch again (without restarting IC computer) and 
were able to get control back.

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Submitted on 2014 Jan 21 [6:33:46]