MDM Trouble Report for 2014 Feb 09

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Jules Halpern (Columbia)
Instrument: OSMOS

Problem(s) Encountered:
When executing a long series of exposures using

  go 30

it will sometimes stop at the end of an exposure
and not start the next one.  A warning that this
might happen is that the blue Time Remaining line
will stop updating in the Prospero window (even
though the exposure continues to completion), 
and there are none of the usual STATUS reports
in the window that come at the end of an exposure,
even though everything is being reported normally
in the real-time display monitor.

Is 30 maybe too large a number of exposures?  It hung after
the first one, but started again after I hit Enter.
It stopped next after number 15, but then I could only
keep going after aborting the sequence and starting again.

This is very inconvenient because it means that I can't
turn away for even 10 minutes during a 5 hour sequence. 
It's hard to maintain that level of vigilance when there
is other work that I could be doing, like data reduction.

Is Prospero getting tired after a few days?  Should I
reinitialize it?  I haven't done a STARTUP or RUNINIT
since Thursday.

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Submitted on 2014 Feb 10 [2:09:10]