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1:03
| Words from Randy | Randy | Words from John | JohnJohn | John | There are exciting instruments coming to the observatory in the next 5 years despite an awkwardly phrased bullet point in yesterday’s all staff. May augment TK K1 poll by swapping with his time Are there deferred maintenance topics which could be for instruments? John will be on East coast in coming couple of weeks
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1:05 | Words from Randy | Randy | |
1:09 | Team Keck observing time in 2023B update | Greg | TK meeting on Tuesday Proposals for 23B are in John can swap his half night on K1 for TK K2 Let John know if your K1 proposal could be on a K2 instrument TK was not included in twilight policy Currently there is a proposal for K1, but haven’t been executing due to RTC work KPF not officially supported as twilight program in policy
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1:17 | NIRC2 Electronics Upgrade project update | Carlos | Replacing transputer with Archon controller From cabinet to small box to control detector Can swap back and forth by switching cables New system supports additional modes including saving all reads New control computer is ubuntu Aborts are now possible
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1:33 | KPF commissioning status | Josh | |
1:45 | Pyramid Update | Max | Mike Liu has 6 nights Not very stable performance as far as image quality goes Tuesday night and end of night, they got good results on latest changes, but unclear as it was last 1 hour of night and following night was weathered out All without offsets, this was on axis Clearly have issue with loop stability with reference slopes on DM
FY24 planningSomething is unstable which was not unstable in past Next science is end of April for Pyramid (group may switch to SH WFS) Will discuss strategy next week Extinction was not good during most of this work
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1:51 | FY 24 Planning | Randy | 5 year plan has been mostly developed Reflects strategic plan Pragmatic approach to mid-term planning, with realistic funding expectations Many FY23 projects are ending (e.g. KPF, KCRM) UNO extended, but will be ramping down Some labor available in FY24, so FY plan will include deferred maintenance, technical debt, Repair and Prepare (RaP) If you have ideas for how to use resource on instruments, let's collect those and submit as a group. Jim will take lead. Future meeting or process for this Also CI projects will be in FY24 Randy will share large projects as we get closer to FY24 Kyle and Jeff have already been collecting software facing things for instruments Jim: ok to have a long list Randy: use next SA meeting
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1:59 | Morning Cals | Carolyn | How to know if observers are done with dome flats? There is a keyword, there is a GUI for observers Still operate under idea that if you’re on Zoom you are taking cals Jim: could use RTI, if no image within X minutes (along with other criteria) Jim: will try to intercept this at MASG if schedule seems likely to need morning cals
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2:11 | Liger Team Visit | Marc | Liger team will be here at end of May Will take over JNCR Marc has drafted Sherry to help If interested in talking to group, let Marc know
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2:12 | Announcements | Randy | |
2:14 | Pau! | | |