| Date | Description | Person(s) | Hardware Group | Action performed | Attachment | Edit | Site | Task(?) |
| 2025-08-06 |
MADS: For AFTER the vacation ! :-) Ghost in the machine ???? Yesterday I stopped both T1 and T2 monitors and or-scheduler --- yet, I discovered in the afternoon that the telescopes had opened and tried to observe, however acquisition always seemed to fail. In addition at the end of the night, when the sun was 3.5deg below the horizon both domes were still open!! |
Frank |
Telescope |
I Closed the domes manually from HW. One observation + many ThAr was obtained in the night. NO flux on the ThArs. |
None |
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MtKent |
269 |
| 2025-08-05 |
MADS: I put urgent, but guess you are on vacation, so this is for after :-) :The weather is great and not errors reported anywhere - but no observations. |
Frank |
Telescope |
It seems that I cannot home/move T1, T2 using the PWI2 interface. Tried to restart PWI on T1 ... seemingly no effect. I have disabled T1, T2 monitors and the OR_scheduler and closed the domes. |
None |
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MtKent |
268 |
| 2025-07-28 |
No calibration light through fibres for quite some time |
Mads |
calibration shutters |
Checked if light from ThAr and Flat came to guide unit in nasmyth which it did not - most likely the shutters in the guide unit are not activated in remote mode. @Duncan: could you please check and activate them next time at MtKent? |
None |
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MtKent |
266 |
| 2025-07-24 |
Cannot connect to telescope and telescope in strange position. When trying to connect through PWI4 one gets an error: Axis0 communication channel not found. Is the device plugged in and turned on? See attachment. Duncan, feel free to call me at 91959459 at any time if you need help troubleshooting or to test something. |
Karsten |
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MtKent |
263 |
| 2025-07-07 |
Disabled usage of T2 since this is causing issues on a daily basis and most people are on holidays.... |
Mads |
Telescope 2 |
Closed down and turned off monitor. |
None |
Edit |
MtKent |
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| 2025-06-30 |
T2 did not home and errors where shown in PWI2 - Tracking error |
Mads |
Telescope 2 |
Re-enabled the motor and then moved the telescope a bit. This raised another error (motor pulse too high). I then power cycled the PW control box. Re-started PWI2, connected and enabled and then the homing went well. |
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MtKent |
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| 2025-06-24 |
From the daily light on slit checks it was noticed that light with iodine was not centered on slit |
Mads, Duncan, Frank, Jonatan |
Spectrograph |
The spectrograph box was opened and the Iodine cell was rotated until spots were aligned on slit. Afterwards it was noticed that this was most likely not needed and the confusing was originating from misconfiguration for the daily check images. |
None |
Edit |
MtKent |
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| 2025-06-24 |
Calibration light from fibre in SONG T1 was not centered on science fibre. |
Mads, Duncan |
Calibration unit |
The fibre outout from the calibration fibre was adjusted using the alignment screws. The alignment is not perfect but much better now. |
None |
Edit |
MtKent |
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| 2025-06-23 |
The calibration fibre for SONG telescope 1 is misaligned with the science fibre. See attachment |
Mads |
Calibration unit |
Light from calibration unit was checked on the guide unit in the nasmtyh of T1. Afterwards light was send back through the science fibre to determine the location on the guider. These two do not align and the calibration fibre should be adjusted on site to hit the science fibre better. |
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MtKent |
260 |
| 2025-06-12 |
The shutter on T1 does not seem to work - probably not in remote mode. Please go to T1 and press the button to activate remote mode for the shutter. |
Frank |
Telescope |
Please also check that the T2 shutter is in remote mode. |
None |
Edit |
MtKent |
257 |
| 2025-06-10 |
Re-occurring problem with T2 - Azm error - Motor pulse usage too high |
Mads, Frank |
Telescope 2 |
Powered off the PW box in dome 2, waited some seconds and powered on again. Restarted PWI-2 and moved the telescope a bit with the arrows before homing. |
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MtKent |
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| 2025-06-06 |
Telescope reported not ready in web control and on slack and email there was a message that PWI4 was not running |
Karsten |
Telescope |
On remote desktop PWI4 was running, but PWI3 and ASCOM server were not. I started PWI3 and ASCOM server and the checked that the web controls were running again |
None |
Edit |
MtKent |
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| 2025-06-06 |
T2 did not find targets |
Mads |
Telescope 2 |
Did a homing sequence of T2 again and it would then find targets. |
None |
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MtKent |
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| 2025-06-05 |
The observer page for Mt. Kent shows that all is good - but no signal from T2 - guiding is active, but no star in image and no spectrum from T2 |
Frank |
Slit-guider - T2 |
None, this can wait until next working day. |
None |
Edit |
MtKent |
255 |
| 2025-06-02 |
user reported telescope had stopped responding to control panel commands. When investigated the following morning the telescope was pointing strangely - see attachement for both. |
Karsten |
All |
Telescope computer was in blue screen revealing that it had rebooted. I logged in, enabled alt-az motors, homed and parked the telescope. Restart of the monitor envoked a message saying that the CMOS controller was not running. The camera was then rebooted and the camera controler restarted. After that everything seems to work in the web control panel. |
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MtKent |
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| 2025-04-22 |
Mail from system indicating problem with QHY detector |
Frank |
Spectrograph Detector |
stopped detector daemon, power-cycled the QHY, started qhy-daemon and set temperature to -5 - seem to be running again. |
None |
Edit |
MtKent |
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| 2025-04-17 |
No update of preview images, and no new data on disk, even though we followed alpha Cen A nicely |
Frank |
Spectrograph Detector |
Logged in to detector HP-PC. Stopped the camera-server. Power-cycled the camera from hw as obs (pdu_control spec-room 20 2/1) - Restarted camera server. Remember to set the cooler temperature !! Observations now seem to be going on. It seems we had the same problem yesterday (20250416) so no spectra here. |
None |
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MtKent |
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| 2025-04-14 |
Clar wether for a number of hours... but no data obtained although we were tracking. probably a software issue with data storage. |
Hans Kjeldsen |
IT, software, computers |
Nothing.. |
None |
Edit |
MtKent |
246 |
| 2025-04-08 |
Adjust the Fabry-Perot illumination of the science fibers |
Frank |
Spectrograph |
Duncan helped to correct the misalignment of the FabryPerot light source, such that calibrations now work again for FP. The exposure time should be 2s. |
None |
Edit |
MtKent |
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| 2025-03-17 |
No connection to anything in the FUT dome! Likely because of no power so perhaps breaker switch needs a turn again?! Please investigate. |
Karsten |
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None |
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MtKent |
242 |
| 2025-02-23 |
No connection to anything in the FUT dome (again). Breaker switch or something else? You can wait until daytime to fix. |
Karsten |
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None |
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MtKent |
243 |
| 2024-07-02 |
Raw images of ThAr spectra show nothing from 2. July |
Jonatan Rudrasingam |
Spectrograph |
Added it to the task as time worthy, since the wavelength solution on Mt. Kent is stable and people are on holiday. But it needs be looked at somepoint during August at the latest |
None |
Edit |
MtKent |
261 |
