MDM Trouble Report for 2018 Nov 02

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Weil & Podjed (Dartmouth)
Instrument: Echelle

Problem(s) Encountered:
At the beginning of the night the telescope continued to have
pointing problems. The telescope would point toward a target far
in the EAST above HA=3, and had one of two problems: 1) the
stars were elongated along the East/West Direction, 2) the stars
were round, but tracking would be lost on the telescope within 
2 minutes of slewing the telescope. The problem was fixed
when Eric told us to adjust the preload an 1/8th turn CCW. 
No problems with elongated stars or lost tracking were 
encountered for the rest of the night. 


At the end of the night, when we tried to home the dome we got
the following errors, while the dome seemed to rotate without
an end point: 
ERROR home axis=m_az timeout
ERROR dome m_az not homed

From previous trouble reports, an observer suggested
sending the dome to home using a direction LEFT rather than 
AUTO, this worked and the dome went home. 

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Submitted on 2018 Nov 3 [6:06:34]