Content Comparison

1:00

Words from Randy

Randy

• Dwight is leaving, will be here until November 17th

  • What should we focus on before he leaves?

  • What is best staffing model after?

  • Josh: ask rest of engineering/instrument team if they are at least familiar with each instrument. If there are holes, have Dwight do training on that instrument.

  • Greg: figure out which procedures have only been done with Dwight

  • Randy: What are near term troubleshooting efforts (e.g. MOSFIRE CSU troubleshooting)? We may need to take lead.

  • Josh: LRIS-II team was made aware of Dwight’s departure this morning.

  • LRIS servicing mission: 2 key players (Jim Thorne and Dwight) now gone, so may be delayed?

  • Randy: Grant can play a strong role here as well

  • Randy: “We won’t be able to lean on Dwight the way we have”

  • Randy: plan is to hire to replace Dwight, which skillsets should replacement have

  • John: Can reset how we look at instrument support

    • Dedication to cross-training and documentation

    • This group should be more present on summit for a while

    • How should we organize an instrument team?

  • Dwight is on summit Wednesday and Thursday currently, working on docs other days

1:27

Words from John

John

• SSC (Nov 7 for instrument presentations) and board meetings in two weeks

• Pau Hana with board on Nov 9 at 4pm

• NIKUG is Dec 1 (Fri)

1:32

Astropy Onsite Workshop

Carlos

• John is happy to have us host this, but needs local “champion” (Jeff is remote)

• John: is there a cost? Travel for presenters?

• Kyle: From announcement: “Support welcome, but not required”

1:36

KOA updates

Chien-Hsiu

• Example codes/notebooks to download data

  • On KOA page on Keck instrument webpages

  • In “common” instrument pages

  • CHL will add to each instrument’s post-observing page if missing

• Still some issues with the KOA RTI interface. There is a manual step at IPAC which is not 100% reliable.

• Asking NexSci to provide API so we can query which observers have access and we can verify

• John: we need to educate users about how this works, need for KOA account. We want to take away rsync/ssh access in the long term.

  • If you run in to KOA problem, night log it or get it sent to NexSci.

• Guider images now archived in KOA

  • Shui is already saving guider image every 2 minutes

  • Now all archived

  • Treated as proprietary

  • Not working for ToO programs

1:58

UNO transition plan

Carolyn

• Transition starts maybe Jan 1

• OAs act as if they are not at the summit

  • Two step process: OA tries to use cameras, then sends NA in to dome to compare results

  • May be additional overheads (transition period will probe this)

• Jim: Is camera server blocking if others are logged in as well? Don’t want us to block critical checkouts.

• Will be additional troubleshooting time done completely remotely before switching to a hands on solution (some OA discretion)

2:12

OA HQ hours/help on projects

Carolyn

• As we move to UNO and because we have a full OA staff, OAs will have some HQ/daytime hours

• If you have projects, including research, OAs are interested and available

2:21

Nightlog/Daylog ticket formatting

Carlos

Astropy Onsite Workshop

Carlos

• Adding figures or formatting text (e.g. tables) is hard or impossible

• Can/should we ask for upgrades?

• Night log system does interpret some html tags

• Could it be changed to all monospaced text? That would help.

2:30

Pau!

• Next meeting Nov 23 (guess we skip Nov 9 due to SSC meeting?)

• Lead?: Chien-Hsiu Lee (Unlicensed)