Content Comparison

1:03

Words from John

John

• Updates from SSC. Discussed 5 year plan, still needs board endorsement.

• Luca presented DSI

• Joe H. presented on PypeIt

  • Throughput curves now being generated automatically

1:05

Words from Randy

Randy

• Feedback on SSC?

• Tech demo discussion was interesting

  • Circumvents “PI Instrument” or “Visitor Instrument” process

  • Need to avoid using this as a way to circumvent facilitization costs

  • Luca: need clear definition of a facility instrument

  • Proposers have been warned that they need approval from WMKO to submit proposals

• KPF Cadence Discussion

  • Team likely wants KPF to have small amounts of time on many nights

  • Email Andrew Howard directly with cc to John if you want to be on it

  • Carlos: similar to twilight observing, but no discretion

1:23

SSC: Strategic Plan

Randy

• Randy: We will have role, but different than last time

• John: trying not to create busywork. SAs should have real input, not just be notetakers.

1:26

TeamKeck

Luca

• Deadline is April 9

• Need allocation to Carolyn by May 3

• Randy: we do reserve ToOs for TeamKeck. Well they are really for community (equivalent of DD time). 6 hours of interrupts available.

1:31

LRIS-R Commissioning Plan

Sherry, Marc, Percy

• Arrives on April 6

• Full schedule on spreadsheet

• LRIS off sky on April 16 (warm red side dewar)

• Install dewar in April 19

• Engineering April 27-28, May 6 (all first half nights)

• Luca: what about operational scripts (e.g. focus)?

  • WillD and Kyle have been working on adapting focus low level software to run on new machine. This is low level s/w not scripts.

  • Kyle will move software to new machine on 17th, but that is basic functionality of focus mechanism, not scripting.

  • Sherry: been trying scripts on linux VM

  • Luca: need to come up with list of needed scripts for going on sky.

  • Sherry: we have document

• Randy: where do we put things so everyone can see it? Confluence.

  • Marc: wants to use existing google doc space

  • https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eu6sNm7L9lA7T55zQ0RZxfUuDUSlILhc

• Kyle: Solaris machine will still exist and will have keyword access to new detector

• Are there access issues with the recent fall protection areas that were defined around cass?

• Carolyn: do any SAs want/need fall training? Is scheduling for OAs, will send email.

• Luca: how conservative/aggressive is schedule?

  • Marc: the previous (Mark-III) upgrade was done in just a couple days

  • Kyle: that change was purely detector hardware, so this is difference scope with software and computer architecture, first ARCONS controller.

  • Randy/Marc: could be noisier than lab (not uncommon), but don’t anticipate dramatic problems in first run

• Kyle: first science is 7-15 (last eng is 6th)

• Marc: shared slide presented at SSC meeting

• Any changes to slit mask design? No immediate changes. No gap on red side which was the limiting factor (blue gap is smaller: 12” vs 30”).

• No plan for project to deal with DRPs, but PypeIt will get modified

• Readout is now 42 seconds vs. 200 seconds

• Will not have windowing (deferred by project)

• MIRA and SAT will still be on blue side due to mechanism move times

• Connie is interested in studying what went wrong with current mosaic. Not funded, but is of interest.

2:11

Outreach Ambassadors

Josh

• Everyone who wants to should sign up as an outreach ambassador

• Josh is thinking about telescope activities for students. Get in touch with him if you are interested in doing projects with students.

2:15

Telescope Support Schedule

Randy

• Randy summarizes spreadsheet for making SA schedule

2:23

Pau!