2020-05-26 Meeting notes

11:33

Words from John

John

• Back on sky with two telescopes!

• We had SSC and NIKUG meeting - SSC mostly dedicated to White Papers. Both praised the observatory/Obs. Support group for going back on sky and enabling pajamas mode

11:35

Words from Randy

Randy

• Positive feedback on the new TeamKeck review process

• Probably going to level 3 soon, stay tuned for developments this week

• Last night K1 was pretty much flawless, weird split night between HIRES/OSIRIS-LGS/HIRES

  • During science verification night, with TRICK on the GC, the image quality was so high that the images were under-sampled

• Randy suggests the use of breakout rooms on Zoom to have side conversations

• Jim has added the host key in the showpassword repository

11:43

Actions

all

Review of outstanding actions

11:45

Future of this meeting time/schedule

all

Suggestion is to go back to Thursday at 1pm. Done!

11:50

TeamKeck

all

Links to allocation pages posted on Slack. Comments on Proposals are on their way

discussion on issues with multi-threading

12:04

Pajama mode

John

• Remember to properly log tickets/issues with pajamas mode

• Policies about first time observers and pajama parties

• Greg: for remote stations that are used for the first time, best to have a pajama mode observer just in case

• We might be able to have some funding to produce a more reliable and safe solution

Please put your comments here:

https://keckobservatory.atlassian.net/l/c/0Rhx7FsH

12:29

testAll

Greg

• Maybe we should differentiate testAll from instrument checkout scripts

• Suggestion 1: For now SAs be proactive to connect with summit lead regarding instrument checkout status

• Suggestion 2: SAs and summit lead connect at 2 pm to touch base on instrument and telescope readiness

• Carlos has a script to check DEIMOS readiness, may be helpful for other instruments.

12:39

KVSP

Josh

• Some candidates have no specific projects in mind but may have useful skills.

• Take a look at the candidates (posted on Slack) and contact Josh in the next few days if you want to endorse any of their applications.