MDM Trouble Report for 2023 Dec 07

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): John Thorstensen et al. (Dartmouth)
Instrument: OSMOS

Problem(s) Encountered:
The telescope monitor in the dome isn't working, apparently.
This makes it diffucult to set the rotator accurately.

Prospero froze in the middle of an exposure (of a focus 
sequence).  I had to delete the window, and then it's not obvious
how to restart.  Eventually I found it in the  Applications 
menu, but it had been so long since I had to restart Prospero
that I'd forgotten that.  My first instinct was to type 
 prospero , which gave an unhelpful error that it was not found
(in the path). I took it on myself to write a tiny script that
runs when you type  prospero  that simply tells the user where
to look for it.  That may help in the future.

I had some trouble finding an object far to the west with 
the instrument rotated -- eventually just gave up.  Pointing
far to the north was also off pretty far; it may be time to 
figure out a new pointing model.

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Submitted on 2023 Dec 8 [7:14:09]