Telescope Pointing Errors Update

We started the telescope on a mapping run last night. The first ~20 points looked very good, but then the dome stopped responding to commands to rotate. The dome shutter could be opened and closed, but the dome could not be rotated

Telescope Homing Errors

With help from Don and Steve at Software Bisque we believe that we have now resolved the problems with homing our mount.

Sumer Maintenance Trip 2013 Update

So far the summer maintenance trip has been very busy for me, so I've not had a great deal of time to blog about my work.. but today I am going to make some time.

Summer Maintenance Trip 2013

As I write this post we are flying parallel to the coast of Africa, heading to Tenerife for the summer maintenance visit.

Telescope pointing update

I have made progress towards resolving the telescope pointing issue on a number of fronts over the past week.

Webcam failures.. Resolved!

We this assistance of the IAC maintenance team we have been able to bring the webcams back online.

Telescope pointing

As a result of the recent poor pointing performance of the telescope I have been experimenting with the use of plate solving to monitor the pointing performace.