MDM Trouble Report for 2015 Oct 10

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Alper (Dartmouth)
Instrument: Modspec/Templeton

Problem(s) Encountered:
When I opened, the MIS, TCS, and JSkyCalc were all gone or
crashed. Eric diagnosed this as McGraw needing a restart, and he
instructed Dan Gifford on how to do so. This was successful, but
in doing so (or due to some unknown), we've completely lost our
pointing.

After numerous HA and Dec homings, nothing had changed. We checked
the tilt sensors, and they're on point, or very nearly so. I
closed and restarted all of the software and servers to no
avail. I noticed that JSkyCalc seems to be reading a different
RA and Dec than the TCS, so I tried matching JSkyCalc to it,
also to no avail. I spent a few hours hunting and pecking with
the paddle (trying to match the Dec discrepancy on the TCS to
what we know zenith to be, and then just randomly as well),
but was unable to recognize a single star field.

Perhaps the TCS needs to be cycled? I'm not sure what else could
be the culprit here. I feel especially bad that this happened
on our first truly clear night this run - extremely bad luck.

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Submitted on 2015 Oct 10 [23:19:56]