Observing Run w. Izzy and Locke - (Oct 6 - Oct 7 2017)

Post date: Oct 08, 2017 9:31:36 AM

Oct 6; 2017

Water Level: 21 in

Skies: over-clouded / slight rains.

Oct 7; 2017

Skies: rains / cleared by 1am.

While slewing to one of Izzy's targets, the telescope hit the horizon limit, causing the alarm to go off. After Bifrost stopped responding, we eventually conceded that we had to close Bifrost. Next, we turned off telescope key.

At this point we need to re-point/re-position the telescope to zenith. We re-started Bifrost and attempted to restart the telescope w/ the key on the skirt, but the lights failed to turn on and the telescope failed to connect, which seems to be a deeper issue, so we cannot manually adjust telescope to point at zenith (and bubble-level / re-adjust telescope pointing).

We contacted Matt who suggested we restart GTCC (he suggested that it could be a driver failure). When we restarted the computer, power to the mouse and keyboard USB bay had been lost, so we hit the reset button on the computer to restart it again. We were brought back to the old gTCC. Connecting the mouse and keyboard to the front 2 USB's of GTCC reconnected it.

Matt suggested that the telescope will need to be fixed next weekend with the engineers. The telescope is now covered, just not pointed at zenith.

Upon leaving:

Water Level: 18 in

Pantry:

Cleared out all expired supplies in fridge.