MDM Trouble Report for 2015 Mar 24

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): John Thorstensen (Dartmouth)
Instrument: modspec + echelle

Problem(s) Encountered:
At the start of the night I wasn't seeing starlight.  At first
I thought the dark hatch might have been left shut, but Laura
Kay and a student came down from the 2.4m to check, and it was
open.  There was a racket coming from the find-guide mirror,
though, and it proved to be stuck shut.  By moving back to the 
zenith I was able to unstick the mirror -- I guess it had
an unfavorable gravity vector on it -- and I left it opened for
the rest of the night.  

I was at +14 degrees and about a half-hour west when the failure
occurred.  Hardly a scandalous telescope position, though I do
get to them from time to time - I tracked an object to > 4 air-
masses last night, for actual good reasons.

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Submitted on 2015 Mar 25 [5:46:11]