Engineering ideas

Science verification of DEIMOS polo migration to Linux and rotator controller upgrade. Test GUIs and operation scripts on sky with a DEIMOS observer.

DEIMOS

Two 0.5 nights separated by two weeks.

C. Alvarez.

S. Kwok, K. Lanclos and W. Deich (UCSC) on call.

K1 LGS Engineering

• LBWFS testing of averaging tools

• Solid on-sky time with TRICK NGS and LGS, smooth out all TRICK’s edges. Observe a wide range of targets, e.g. point sources, faint extended sources, nonsidereal targets, etc.

OSIRIS

2, but separate half nights if can.

J. Lyke, JC Guerra, S. Yeh, S. Cetre

PyWFS and SH switch back and forth on sky (procedure needs to be practiced during daytime BEFORE nighttime engineering)

NIRC2

P. Gomez, JC Guerra, C. Bond, S. Cetre

NGS-AO performances and stability using 1.0 plate scale for KI and KII

OSIRIS NIRC2

JC Guerra

NIRES engineering:
daytime:

1. slit-viewing camera guiding work 24 hours (need cold NIRES, no tel access)

2. spectral flexure 8 hours (full tel access)

night time:

1. optical guider flexure 2 hours

2. throughput measurements 0.5 hours

3. slit-viewing guiding 2 hours
   
   

NIRES

5 hours

P. Gomez (all)

M. Baril (daytime 1)

S. Kwok (night time 3)

K. Laclos (daytime 1)

A. Rostopchina (night time 1)

KAPA Laser engineering

OSIRIS

1

J. Lyke, S. Ragland, S. Cetre, E. Wetherell

NIRSPEC SCAM guiding on sky. Test and optimize SCAM acquisition and Magiq/SCAM guiding for M-band objects imaged on SCAM directly. This would make use of the recently optimized detector settings for the high background Mband imaging case.

NIRSPEC

0.5 night

G. Doppmann, S Kwok