Ra trailing update

Trailing in the Ra axis was a noticeable problem with our images in the weeks leading up to the hardware failures in Tenerife. This post talks about the diagnostic work and repairs that were completed to resolve this issue.

Tenerife emergency maintenance update - September 2013

We arrived on site to make emergency repairs to the system on the 7th of September, since that date we have been working hard to bring the system back on line.

Dome update

With help from the observatory maintenance team, we have located the source of the dome Az drive problem.

Dome offline

We currently have a problem with the azimuth drive of the dome which is preventing operation.

Long overdue blog post...

This is my first blog post in a very long time.. too long to be honest.
At the end of the observatory maintenance trip the whole team returned to the UK and buried our heads in paperwork and attempts to make the system run well.

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.