2024 September 23 - 27

DKIST General

Operational Status

• DKIST is in week 1 of science observing period OCP 2.9 

Events

Personnel

SciOps and OpsTools team

Accomplishments

TechOps team

Accomplishments

• Wrap up of 2024D Eng Period with

• Shake and Bake of the Main movers and thermal systems prior to start of observing.

• Sorting of surplus chemicals. paints etc for removal from site for safe and appropriate disposal.

• M1 Co2 clean canceled due to humidity over threshold.

• Optics covers removed.

• Req for Thermal System Review placed - tentative dates on site are week of 11/4/2024

• Chiller 1 repaired and back in service.

• Vertiv (UPS service contractor) on site for repair and maintenance of large UPS systems.

Open

Eric & James removing the M2 Cover in prep for observing - Photo by Paul Jeffers

InstOps team

Accomplishments

Data Center team

Accomplishments

• Completed the vimeo movie upload service and started creating movies in Vimeo, including moving all previously created movies to Vimeo

• Refactored the Cryo-NIRSP linearity correction to skip ramps correctly

• Began update the science data transfer service to accept “tar”ed files in oredr to speed up data transfer from the summit.