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Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope
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1. Science/Technical Highlight (Anyone)
2. Photos (Anyone)
3. Directorate (Dave)
3.1 Activities
The months of January and February continued as an extended engineering period focusing on Technical Operations maintenance and upgrades and integration of the VTF instrument. The VTF group from KIS Germany arrived on Maui on January 8 and will be there integrating the VTF through the end of February.
The DKIST Directorate continued work on the DKIST section of the NSO 2024 Annual Program Plan (APP). The 2024 NSO APP was submitted to NSF on
The DKIST Deputy Associate Director attended the AAS 2024 Winter meeting in New Orleans, LA.
The DKIST Director was on Maui for most of January and FebruaryFor the month of June, DKIST continued weeks 2-6 of OCP2.7 science observing.
The DKIST Directorate prepared for and presented to the NSO User’s Committee on January 18, 2024.
The DKIST Directorate held a FY 2024 Q2 planning meeting with the DKIST senior leadership.
The DKIST Directorate prepared for and presented to the AURA Solar Observatory Council on February NSF’s 2-year extension proposal review held June 4-6, 2024.
3.2 Financial Status
DKIST operations carried forward approximately $13.82M in unencumbered funds into FY 2024 from previous years. A total of $14.00M in new funding has been obligated by NSF thus far in FY 2024.
Financial status of
DKIST operational expenditures for the current month were $2.47M
Total YTD expenditures for DKIST operations are $17.64M.
Total outstanding encumbrances are $10.61M.
The average DKIST spending for the past 12 months (burn rate; BR) is $2.51M / month.
4. Science Operations (Ali and Andres)
4.1 Status of Observing
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4.1.1 Regular Cycle Observing
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4.1.2 Solar Orbiter Co-Observing
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4.1.3 Parker Solar Probe Co-Observing
N/A.
4.2 Observing Planning
N/A. Not on sun.
Planning
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4.3 Science Operations Training Activities
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5 Technical Operations (Paul)
5.1 Technical Operations highlights for June
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6 Instrumentation Operations (Bret, Friedrich, and Dave H.)
6.1 Optics
6.1.1 System Optics
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7 Data Center Operations (Bob and Alisdair)
7.1 Hardware Infrastructure
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