MDM Trouble Report for 2017 Aug 31

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Gilligan (Dartmouth)
Instrument: TIFKAM

Problem(s) Encountered:
I had some difficulty with Prospero and the IC tonight. It started with 
Prospero hanging after I issued it a stopmovie command. I had to close out
of Prospero and open it up again. When I did this, the Prospero Status
window became mostly blank. I tried restarting a few times, but that didn't
fix the issue. It isn't a large deal since You can still print whatever value you
want to see like filter or object name.

After this happened, I was using it for about an hour when the IC became
stuck on movie mode. I ended up having to the lightning shutdown 
procedure with the IC. Eventually it came back online. When I started 
Prospero yet again, it gave me an error about the IC not being able to 
save images (sorry I forgot to save this error verbatim). I had to type 
>IC PONG on Calibran. This solved that issue. 

Yet again I started Prospero, and it seems to be working except when I run
my script it displays  IC> WARNING: Telescope controller not responding. 
However, it seems like the telescope is doing everything I want, so I'm
ignoring this error for now. Maybe it's like the RA and Dec encoders error?

Late in the night, I hit a hard limit but the  LIMIT REACHED  error did not
display. It was easy to figure out what was wrong and the solution in the
manual fixed the problem easily.

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Submitted on 2017 Sep 1 [5:57:30]