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2025 March 24 - 28

2025 March 24 - 28

Owned by David Boboltz
Last updated: Mar 28, 2025
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DKIST General

Operational Status

  • DKIST is in week 4 of observing period OCP 3.1.

Events

  • The AURA Member Reps / AURA Board meeting is next week: 4/1 - 4/3

Personnel

  • Welcome to Jaren Cleghorn who will be our new Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) Administrator working on Maui.

SciOps and OpsTools team

Accomplishments

  • OCP 3.1 observing support.

  • Finalizing Pre-Announcement for Cycle 4 Proposal Call (April 1 version of Solar News).

  • Continued preparation of the Cycle 4 Proposal Call.

  • Preparing for the new version of the Experiment Architect tool to be released.

  • Ongoing work on the implementation of the new ICD between the OpsTools and summit HLS systems.

 

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Morning panorama outside DKIST. Photo by Lucas Tarr.

TechOps team

Accomplishments

  • Started Enclosure Cable Wrap Hose connections for TMW (Ambient -4degC) on Util Level.

  • Review of Facility Compressed Air requirements and infrastructure needs ongoing - obsolescence planning.

  • On site Interview for ME candidate.

  • New Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) Admin Jared Cleghorn started on Monday reporting to Stephanie Guzman.

  • Troubleshooting Enclosure Lower Fans for start up issues - current draw.

 

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DKIST Mech Techs working on Enclosure cable wrap hose connection - Photo by Paul Jeffers

Instrumentation team

Accomplishments

  • OCP 3.1 observing support.

  • Ongoing testing of Teledyne visible cameras at the Dunn Solar Telescope in Sunspot, NM.

Data Center team

Accomplishments

  • Completed the requirements elicitation and calibration product definition phase of the intermediate calibration products project. The project aims at generating products that will aid users and DKIST science in assessing data quality, identify trends in the data, and facilitate the generation of calibration parameters when the need arises. Started working on the design to create, store and make available the data identified.

  • worked on a bug fix (in review) that is blocking the release of the last VBI data from cycle 2. This data has 5 mosaic positions - which differed from all other VBI data. The fix is expected to be completed this week with the data being run through the pipeline and available this W/E.

EHS team

Accomplishments

  • We are closing in on getting our Sospes Safety Management app online! We have been working closely with their team to get all our safety documents, training information, inspection forms, etc, uploaded. Sometime next month a representative will be coming to Maui to offer us all user training. Stay tuned!

High Level Software team

Accomplishments

  • Continued with OCP 3.1 support and software development for the upcoming release, Kakou 2.

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