2024-04-25 Meeting notes

1:00

Words from Jim

Jim

• Thanks for efforts on 2 ToOs

• Jim has set up 1 on 1 meetings

• From Carolyn:

  • OAs are now doing VWA checks 10 min before opening

  • Inform observers to budget for this

• KPIC team will be doing calibrations demos (today and on other days later this month)

• Sherry: Is KPIC a facility instrument that we support?

  • By end of semester

  • Needs Operations Handover Review

  • Greg will be KPIC lead

  • Jim: may add KPIC as instrument to system

• Office Space: now only have 9 offices?

  • Randy will float when CHL’s replacement arrives

  • Probably will for ~1 year

• SA Job ad is in AAS Job Register

  • Needs 2 people for job committee

• KSM SOC?

  • at caltech

  • Josh and Rosalie volunteered, Jim will circulate to whole group to see if someone really wants to

1:20

Instrument Leadership

Jim

OID (operations) has asked for SA help to prioritize efforts on the summit. This includes guiders.

• Resources to work on instruments--especially to reduce faults or other lost time on-sky

• Opportunity to demonstrate technical leadership

• Raise internal visibility for the group

Start with LRIS: What do we want to do?

• Does this overlap with Marc’s KNIT system? eMaint?

• Tie tasks in KNIT to how we measure them?

• Resources: engineer time, technician time, and OPS has $$$$

• Focus seems to be on lost time at night as that is easily quantified

• Guiders are a part of this

• Percy showed draft info for LRIS

  • Had metrics for lost time (from Grant)

• Jim: there was a CI for automated guider checks

• @Josh Walawender to tidy up KNIT board (tags for instruments)

• @Jim Lyke to talk to @Marc Kassis about checking schedule, verifying instrument engineer schedule availability, and possibly making it more frequent

• Jim: lets make sure we know what problem we’re solving with this

2:05

AO Restrictions

Jim

• No personnel on top of or underneath either AO bench

• OMP firm found that bench is not rated for the load we have it loaded at (about 2x)

• There is some dead weight, but not half

2:14

Guiders at end of night

Jim for Carolyn

• VWA at end of night includes whether guider is still exposing

  • Do we care if they are left exposing?

  • Probably doesn’t hurt anything

2:17

Pau!