MDM Trouble Report for 2017 Nov 05

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Douglas, Nunez (Columbia)
Instrument: OSMOS

Problem(s) Encountered:
We ran into a couple of minor issues tonight.

The issue with the telescope running away when asked to cross 
RA = 23:59/00:00 persisted. This time, we were at RA=00:16 and tried to
slew to RA=23:44. The telescope ran away East instead of slewing 
West like it should have. We stopped it immediately, slewed across
by hand, and then the telescope slewed happily. When going from
RA=23 to RA=00 (or vice versa) for the rest of the night, we just
slewed across the line by hand, then sent the automatic slew. It 
seems like the new TCS doesn't know how to handle changes in RA
that take it across 0.

We had an issue in Prospero: after entering the  go  command to
start an exposure, the command window stopped showing status
updates. Nothing showed in the isis window, until we hit
Ctrl-C. Isis window then started giving updates on the exposure
(correct ones: open shutter, etc...), but not the command window. The 
status window showed  IC down . We let it finish the exposure and save the file, and then entered 
the  restart  command. Then everything went back to normal. This 
happened twice tonight.

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Submitted on 2017 Nov 6 [4:09:38]