MDM Trouble Report for 2024 Feb 24

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Justin Anderson and John Thorstensen (MDM and Dartmouth)
Instrument: OSMOS

Problem(s) Encountered:
When we went to open up, we found the TCS computer completely 
unresponsive- the mouse wouldn't move.  After fiddling with a 
few connections to no effect, we pressed the yellow restart
button on the rack-mounted TCS computer, and it rebooted.
We were able to restart the TCS and the Maxim-DL software without
any problem.

We were open briefly and found a guide star during a more 
transparent interval, and it was quite a large donut in the guider
TV.  We checked the telescope focus and found it had reset to a
value about 600 units larger than what it was the previous night.
This was most likely a consequence of the reboot.  In any case
resetting to the previous value brought the star into reasonable
focus on the guider.  The clouds then thickened and we closed
without taking any specta.

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Submitted on 2024 Feb 25 [4:28:33]