Dome Home Failure
Monday, January 8, 2018 3:11 PM
Problem(s) Encountered:
While I was acquiring a sky image for my first target of the night, prospero crashed. I hit go, and the command window just hung. Once I safely stowed the telescope (clouds were incoming), I was able to ctrl+c and restart prospero just fine.
While I was closing up for the rain, I tried to send the dome home from the TCS - I set dome mode to Home and clicked Apply, but nothing happened. I tried a second time, same nothing. I was able to move the dome home using the hand paddle, and then closed up successfully.
Solutions:
Disabled autodome on the TCS electronics (switch) and manually moved the dome away from HOME. I then re-enabled autodome and immediately the dome returned to the home position. A fluke?