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DKIST General

Operational Status

  • DKIST went through Shake & Bake 8/5 - 8/6 in preparation for OCP 2.8.

  • Start of the first week of OCP 2.8.

Events

  • DKIST staff and DKIST Ambassadors attended the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) Summer School 7/29 - 8/2. Several DKIST staff members presented at the Summer School.

  • Visit to DKIST by the NOIRLab Head of Engineering Services and Head of Systems Engineering - 8/13

  • Visit to DKIST by a Rubin AIV manager - 8/12

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Personnel

  • The seven Akamai interns working at DKIST finished up their internships this week. See the NSO blog post here.

SciOps and OpsTools team

Accomplishments

  • The SciOps team has contacted the Cycle 3 Time Allocation Committee (TAC) Chair to coordinate dates for the TAC meeting.

  • OCP 2.8 started 8/7 with flare patrol experiments being prioritized. Below is a screenshot of one of the pointing targets for the flare patrol.

  • Cycle 3 PI’s will be contacted next week with an update about the progress made regarding the proposal review process. 

  • The SciOps team continues to work on SciOps Jira tickets and preparing for Cycle 3 Experiment Generation.

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TechOps team

Accomplishments

  • The TechOps and InstOps teams worked together to perform the DKIST Shake & Bake 8/5 - 8/6 in preparation for handover to Science Operations.

InstOps team

Accomplishments

  • Identified an issue in the WFC system on 8/7, caused by a failing custom DM controller board. Replacing it with a spare and re-aligning the system fixed the issue

  • Identified an issue with the Cryo-NIRSP Context Imager camera controller. Issue continues to be investigated.

  • Identified a problem with the new VBI red power-on script. Issue was mitigated.

  • Acquired focus data for the DL-NIRSP to verify focus position. Data analysis will commence in the future.

Data Center team

Accomplishments

  •  Created a pre-commit hook to check workflow names against corresponding .rst documentation files.

  • Corrected SP and CI spatial WCS information for Level 1 Cryo-NIRSP data

  • Updated DL-NIRSP canonical data to use MISI data

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