TCS Command Issues, Various

Wednesday, April 26, 2017 12:41 PM

Problem(s) Encountered:

Problem with dome centering, needed to set Az manually.


Needed to restart telescope to close dome slit at end of night, as it wouldn''t move.


Also some trouble with pointing. Jskycalc didn''t always  take  new coordinates, needed to hit button to slew

twice, etc.


Solutions:

Since the is a change in observers tonight, I brought the telescope systems down.  For good measure, I included a “telescope stop” command.  Experienced errors when trying to do a “telescope start”.  tserver and rtel would not come back online.  Power cycled the TCS box in the computer room then successfully performed “telescope start”.  Homed all telescope components and tested everything out.  All appears to be working well.