2025 January 27 - 31

DKIST General

Operational Status

DKIST is in week 4 of Engineering period Eng. 2025a.
DKIST was experiencing fluctuations in the power due to high winds and MECO shut the power off completely on 1/30. There will be a restart on 2/3.
DKIST senior leadership has been preparing for the DKIST Concept of Operations review (see below)

Events

SciOps and OpsTools team

Accomplishments

Preparation for ConOps review ongoing.
Scientists are creating the experiments for Cycle 3 accepted proposals.
Registered DKIST user database clean-up continues.
Planning of Cycle 4 is ongoing.
Discussed and implemented changes to polcal acquisition in Cycle 3 (inclduing minor update to the python observing program script).
Continued work on implementing a simpler status state machine in OPMT.
Released a temporary python tool to aid the verification of created experiments.
Preparation for a DKIST mini-workshop within the SDO 2025 Science Workshop - A Gathering of the Helio-Hive

TechOps team

Accomplishments

Instrumentation team

Accomplishments

Data Center team

Accomplishments

Preparation for ConOps review ongoing.
Drafted and finalized Strategy for polcals, groupcals, and trend data with stakeholders
Manually fixed and processed Cryo-NIRSP runs with mislabeled exposure times
Attended and presented at the Cyber Infrastructure (CI) Compass Virtual Workshop - “Data Management: From Instrument to First Storage”

EHS team

Accomplishments

Preparation for ConOps review ongoing.
DKIST EHS submitted the bi-monthly Health and Safety report.
Gary attended the NSF Research Infrastructure Office, Safety Officer Working Group at LIGO in Baton Rouge, LA.
Touring LIGO facilities
EHS created a new “General Use Fall Protection” training for all DKIST employees that do not qualify as authorized users and do not work in fall protection equipment. It will cover walking working surfaces, recognizing fall hazards as well as proper ladder use.

DKIST Joint Operations Workspace