From: stephanie snedden
Subject: Re: 2.5m obslog 20050907 (MJD 53621)
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:14:07 -0600
FYI Steve has been working on the new manual crank for the DIMM
cover. We should have it before too much longer.
Steph
On Sep 8, 2005, at 11:45 AM, observer@sdsshost2.apo.nmsu.edu wrote:
>
> The humidity started dropping and around 08:40Z we considered opening.
> However, a check of the sky showed most of the southern half to be
> covered
> in a fair amount of clouds.  We started ventilating and while we
> waited
> for the sky to improve we checked out the DIMM.  DIMM appeared to work
> normally but we noted the following problems: the cover opened
> slowly and
> the air pressure seemed low; the laser pointer had been left on and
> the
> batteries are dead; we could not open a VNC window on monx3.
> However, we
> were able to obtain seeing measurements and the data were being
> accepted
> by the web page.  The DIMM cover closed at a normal speed.
>