2024 May 13 - 17

DKIST General

Operational Status

• We are currently in week 3 of Engineering Period 2024b

Events

• DKIST Ambassadors workshop - 5/13 - 5/16

• NSO Users Committee meeting - 5/14 - 5/15

• Release of DKIST Cycle 3 Proposal Call - 5/15

• Pau Hana at the DSSC - 5/22

• DKIST Shake and Bake - 5/22 & 5/23

• Start of Science Observing period OCP 2.7 - 5/24.

Personnel

• Welcome Francisco Salinas who is starting as a Science Operations Specialist on the DKIST SciOps team.

• Welcome Derek De Guzman who is starting as new MTech Supervisor on the DKIST TechOps team.

• Welcome Kristen Larson who is starting as a calibration engineer. with the DKIST DC team.

• Congrats to Brilayn Onodera on her promotion to Senior Mechanical Engineer on the DKIST TechOps team.

• Congrats to Lucas Tarr for his promotion to Associate Astronomer on the DKIST Science team

• Congrats to Tetsu Anan for his promotion to Associate Scientist on the DKIST Science team

SciOps team

Accomplishments

• Completed all remaining (preparatory) work for the release of the Cycle 3 Proposal Call opening on 05/15/2024, including finishing and approval of the call document and all updates required for the NSO webpages and other documentation. 

• The Science Operations Specialist (SOS) Team delivered the first draft of one of the papers they will present at the next SPIE conference, titled: "DKIST Science Operations Specialists’ Training Program and Document Management." 

• The OpsTools Team stood up a new production Stack on AWS that is completely segregated from the test and development stacks. The new production stack includes more memory, which will alleviate some of the problems the Ops team has had with the AWS servers hanging with large data transfers. This is the culmination of a 3-month effort.

• The OpsTools team completed Proposal Architect changes required prior to the OCP 3 proposal call. This included changes in available instruments and wavelengths.

TechOps team

Accomplishments

• Completion of the bi-annual maintenance of the Observatory major movers (Enclosure, Telescope Mount, and Coude)

• Troubleshooting Dynalene leak & repair on main observatory air to liquid heat exchanger.

• Facility Thermal System Automated mode changes (housekeeping to observing) ready for inclusion in OCS HMI.

• Duty Engineer Training for OCP2.7

InstOps team

Accomplishments

• Installed the VTF first etalon. Aligned the instrument internally and started alignment to the telescope.

• Repaired Cryo-NIRSP spectrograph focus and camera board Analog to Digital Controllers (ADCs).

• Pumped down and cooled DL-NIRSP IR cameras after vacuum repair work.

• Worked on delivery of IR Camera SWIRs from Raytheon

• Worked on MCAO 11km DM design issues with AOA/Xinetics

• Prepared for High-Level Software (HLS) version Pono 8 release.

Data Center team

Accomplishments

• The DC team reduced the size of quicklook movies that are viewed/downloaded from the portal. A number of movies exceeded 20-minute lengths, which does not fit within the "quick look" description.

• The DC team repaired issues on the portal related to dates and times.  Previously, it was noticed that some date/times were 

  • not reflecting the actual description of what the date/time was supposed to be.

  • some data/times were local when they should have been UTC.