MDM Trouble Report for 2014 Oct 22

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Fesen, Black, and Milisavljevic (Dartmouth and Harvard)
Instrument: MK III

Problem(s) Encountered:
Besides the shutter no working (it turned out to be a fuse),
the telescope still has the coordinate drifting problem.

An easy work around is to reset the coordinates at the start of the
night using the leveling indicators and then remember to 
reset the coordinates at each object at the end of observing
it before moving to your next target.

A secondary problem which was noticed once the night before
but reoccurred tonight, was a sudden movement of the telescope
when setting up on a target and lightly touching the east
set buttons. The telescope seems to have moved east by some
10 arcmin. This happened three times with two different observers.

------------------------------

Submitted on 2014 Oct 22 [12:23:24]