MDM Trouble Report for 2015 Oct 24

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): John Thorstensen (Dartmouth)
Instrument: modspec+echelle CCD

Problem(s) Encountered:
Two items:

1) The AC computer is saying  

Coils seem to be frozen! Defrosting to 13 C.  Coil heater ON.

but the coils aren't frozen as far as I can tell -- I opened
the hatch and looked at 'em -- and the A/C cooling coils are at
9 C, close to ambient.  Hopefully I'll get some cooling today
anyway.

2) When I was very tired in the morning, I sent the telescope
toward one of my evening targets -- or at least that's what
I think happened -- and the telescope went near the meridian and
then kept going north through the pole. At that point I 
noticed that it was going to a weird HA like 13, so I stopped
when it was at maybe 3 airmasses in the north.  I hand slewed 
the dec in the  south  direction -- which was really north,
then south after it got past the pole -- and went to a 
legitimate target without any trouble.  The moral is to 
check the Next Object line on the TCS monitor before
starting a slew.

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Submitted on 2015 Oct 25 [6:38:41]