Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:01:14 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Re: [apo-staff]  3.5m Night Log 20061123
From: "William Ketzeback"
On Fri, November 24, 2006 06:49, Gabrelle Saurage wrote:
>                         Apache Point Observatory
>                         3.5m Telescope Night Log
>                        Thursday, November 23, 2006
>
> I took calibrations and sky flats for the first half observers with
> SPIcam, and eveflat and dofocus macros did not work properly
> (eveflat
> returns without doing anything, and dofocus says it is setting the
> focus
> to –999888, or some huge negative value, and will take 999888
> seconds to
> complete, and I set starting focus to -100). So, I took the flats
> one at a
> time. Then I exited SPIcam and restarted the program. After that
> dofocus
> worked as expected, so perhaps eveflat would as well. Second half
> mornflat
> worked for the observer.
>
This happens when spicam has not gotten a tcc connection. First try
a 'tcc hi' if this doesnt work or more likely other things may have
gone screwy with the way spicam started up it is best to exit spicam
controls and restart. Also for sanity sake double check that you are
running spicam in the /home/spicam directory on spicamicc and not
started in someother directory such as /export/images
Bill