MDM Trouble Report for 2023 Oct 09

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): John Thorstensen (Dartmouth)
Instrument: Templeton Direct

Problem(s) Encountered:
I took the second half of the night after Doug Clowe and the 
Ohio U students were finished - Doug already submitted the 
observing report and had mentioned that the guide probe is stuck
in X.  I do need to guide, unlike Doug, so I tried to fix it, 
going as far as re-initializing the MIS, but it won't budge.  

I wasable to establish with some confidence from the guide star
fields that even though the MIS claims the probe is stuck at
X = 0, it is out near X = 23000.  

This is not a show-stopper, though. The sky was nice and clear,
and the seeing decent -- really nice conditions! -- so I was
able to guide on only moderately bright stars (I didn't need
a bright guide star to hang on through high cloud like the last
few nights).  

I ended up working from midnight to 6 AM MST; other than the
guide probe, everything worked well.

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Submitted on 2023 Oct 10 [6:25:52]