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11:32 | Words from Randy | Randy | Going to go to “Level 3” for COVID risk matrix. Not yet official. Not a big impact on us. More summit presence. More project work at summit. Likely starting next week. We can go up for instrument or AO work. HQ will be more open. Still limited vehicle situation, but >1 per car. A and B summit teams will continue Contracting someone to do testing for us Still need to register to go in to HQ to facilitate contact tracing Level 3 expected to be a long term situation (months)
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11:41 | Words from John | John | |
11:42 | Engineering Plan | Randy | |
11:50 | Review Action Items | Greg | Collection of Pajama Mode thoughts is for long term considerations. Some demand is likely to continue after COVID is over Josh pushed out v1.1 of Remote Observing software, new test system, so be aware that observers should run their tests slightly differently.
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12:02 | Build and Deploy | Kyle | FACSUM, MET, and Rose UIs don’t need to be run on instrument VMs, could be run on kNobs Having compass rose next to instrument data is important Kyle prefers not to SSH forward interfaces: less efficient, less reliable Consensus is for flexibility, but could run them on kNobs if needed.
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12:12 | | Carlos | Clarify discussion about support of QACITS from yesterday’s coffee discussion QACITS was written elsewhere, but has been officially supported by Keck since 2017 QACITS is still not something we know intimately, uncertainty in s/w group on how to handle tickets or questions QACITS takes information on residuals from star on vortex to determine centering of PSF on vortex. Runs PID loop to keep star centered on vortex. Very complicated to do that. UI is poor: users edit hardcoded values in source and restart software. Jim: Wasn’t QACITS put in to KROOT? Yes. Avoids conking. One IDL subroutine is needed, so it is conked in home directory. Randy: When capabilities are added to instrument, it should be the goal to make it a facility grade capability. Do we need guidance or policy on “specialty modes”? QACITS works with both SH and PyWFS. Carlos: QACITS is not to standard needed for typical users.
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12:41 | Newsletter | Luca | We skipped two issues of newsletter Should we re-evaluate the format? Is monolithic newsletter every 6 months best? Something more agile? Go annual and link to Keck Science Meeting? Will bring up again.
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12:44 | ToO Policy? | Randy | What to do with ToOs in “pajama mode” observing Randy proposal: Carlos: PJ mode is overwhelming Can we pre-set up ToO observers to avoid last minute configuration burden? Place limitations on the number of observers per night? per progid? per run?
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1:10 | Pau! | | |