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2021-08-19 Meeting notes

2021-08-19 Meeting notes

Date

Aug 19, 2021

Participants

  • @Randy Campbell @Percy Gomez @Paul Richards (Unlicensed) @Kyle Lanclos @Jim Lyke @Josh Walawender @sherry yeh @Greg Doppmann @Carlos Alvarez @Carolyn Jordan @Rosalie McGurk @Michael Lundquist Grant Hill @John O'Meara @Marc Kassis

Goals

  • upcoming KSM,

  • hiring update,

  • an update from Marc on KPF and KCRM, LFC

  • a Grafana tutorial, maybe invite Paul



Discussion topics

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

1:09

Grafana tutorial

Paul R.

  • Late start to mic troubles in JNCR

  • Grafana is an open source response to Tableau

  • vm-dashboards.keck.hawaii.edu, keck windows login username, NOT full email

  • Can overplot many channels

  • Can see your own dashboards as well as other people’s dashboards

  • Renders Strings (pick different vizualization type)

  • MUSIC based instruments included (maybe not HIRES sometimes), RPC ones are a little more iffy

  • Paul is very happy to help!

1:32

Words from Randy

Randy

  • Just back from vacation

  • Keck Science Meeting

    • Hybrid is moving forward, will be an in-person component

    • John: SOC will send out list of talks/breakouts in the next few days

    • Let John know about any urgent instrument updates

1:37

Words from John

John

  • John out all next week (but online)

1:38

hiring update

Jim

  • Have 3 positions open

    • OA: just closed

    • AO

    • SA

    • NA

  • On Mon 30th, Max Service will be starting as AO Operations Scientist

  • Michael will be moving in to Luca’s old office, Max will sit where Michael is now

  • Carolyn: OA Position to replace Cindy, filled by Matt Wall (from Subaru), starting 9/20

  • Carolyn: NAs are no longer in this group, just lost Andrew Deverse. Nick just hired new NA, Logan (replaced Koa), recruiting for NA to replace Andrew.

    • Will be nights without NA and nights with inexperienced NA

  • Randy: SA position just opened, not on AAS JR yet, but posted in other places

1:44

Update from Marc

Marc

  • Updates on KPF, KCRM, LFC

  • KPF

    • Still planning on delivery on schedule, ship Jan, arrived Feb

    • Probably going to slip to April

    • FIU: drawings done, will start fabrication

    • Ship FIU to us for Feb

    • Had a problem with detector, broke wire bonds, fixed and now re-testing

    • Winlight is still source of delays

  • KCRM

    • Will be late

    • Winlight also a source of delays

    • Shipping in May

    • Randy: KCWI offline June 1 in latest announcement

    • Team knows were now committed to this schedule

    • No hold ups on our end. Primary work is guider.

    • Have time in Oct to install on KCWI, but may not happen based on COVID restrictions and other delays

    • Planning to move instrument from K2 to K1 dome cleanroom, Marc has prioritized this below KPF work

  • Jim: will RTC delays on K1AO cause collisions with KPF

    • Marc: yes, possibly

    • For KPF, timing of FIU installation is critical

  • LFC

    • Greg and Grant working on this

    • mini technical review on Tuesday

    • Purchases getting done, parts are arriving

    • Delivery date is “early” in FY = Jan or Feb time frame

    • KPIC up and running in summer for on sky science with FIU

    • May do some testing with NIRSPEC before KPIC

    • Not allocated a lot of time for this FY, but that will change for upcoming FY and it will have high priority for integration efforts

  • Jim: more Andor cameras are coming here. Are we happy with them for guiders?

    • K1 ACAM

    • DEIMOS

    • ESI

    • = retire PXLs

  • SCALES will be a project next FY for preliminary design

    • Marc: at least 4 years away, but on radar

  • Greg: Funding for HISPEC: proposal not funded

    • Marc: Instrument has permissions to seek funding and will resubmit proposal

    • WMKO and team are looking at other funding options

  • HAKA not funded

  • FOBOS not funded

  • LIGER is MSRI2 proposal, passed pre-proposal, working on final proposal

  • Proposals coming up:

    • HISPEC, SCALES, DEIMOS upgrade, FOBOS (may put in MSIP design study), HAKA (resubmission)

2:12

Pau!

 

 

Action items

Decisions

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