MDM Trouble Report for 2022 Mar 31

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Laura Kay & Ed Moran (Barnard College)
Instrument: CCDS

Problem(s) Encountered:
(1) When trying to move to a new target, the TCS seemed to freeze.
It wouldn't receive coords from JSkyCalc, we couldn't turn off
tracking or move the telescope by inputing coords in the TCS
Telescope/Movement GUI.  As we were reading documentation to try
to address the problem, the TCS seemed to wake up.  We turned
tracking off and moved to the zenith, then resumed tracking and
moved to our target without any problems.  At some point later,
the Rotator GUI died.

(2) Quartz flats and the Ar lamp spectrum have a strong, strange
feature that looks like scattered light or a light leak.  The
feature did not appear in a short twilight flat, but it might be
there faintly.  The quartz flats are unusable in this state.

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Submitted on 2022 Apr 1 [5:45:40]