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?