Dome fugue state at closure

Thursday, March 12, 2026 7:27 AM

Problem(s) Encountered:

When attempting to home the dome, the dome did not stop at the right position and instead kept going round and round.  I managed to stop the motion by putting in a new command to set to a specific azimuth. I contacted Justin at the 2.4m, and he closed the dome for me. 

Solution:

Thanks to Justin for helping out with this.  Homed the dome today.  Tested telescope/dome motion functionality and everything worked well.  Stowed the telescope and homed the dome to end the tests.  Hopefully things work more smoothly tonight.
Incidentally, late night calls to my phone will find it in “silenced” mode.  For an emergency, I believe if you call my number 2 (or 3?) times in a short period of time, it will ultimately ring on my end.