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
Visit to DKIST by the NOIRLab Head of Engineering and one other engineers - 8/13
Visit to DKIST by a Rubin AIV manager - 8/12
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.
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