Engineering 2010July-Aug
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See last set of notes from Engineering 2010May-June
Daily Log:
2010 August 3:
1. from scratch alignment of champ. preparation for picomotor tests at night. 2. need to order new cable for ealing mounts (db9->rj45) 3. measured asymmetry in picomotor motions for dicroics [not for tower of power yet] 4. ordered ealing cable for champ dicroic 5. got 100x100 readout working for champ 6. tested baseline button for mirc -- worked in lab but seemed to fail on sky 7. fringes with mirc! 8. XC tweaked up fibers. nearly as good as last year maybe 30% lower.. not exactly sure 9. vme power supply died!! but luckily there was spare! 10. short to do list: find achromatic ND filters (in mirc cabinet?), edit picomotor gui to deal with asymmetric gains
Ettore Pedretti came out for 2 weeks to work on upgrade xenomai on mirc/champ
Xiao Che came for 3 weeks to lead the MIRC observing and do some small MIRC improvements
work finished and needs to be done
Fabien Baron came for 4+ weeks to observe with CLIMB/CLASSIC and to work on CHAMP engineering
Stefan Kraus came out for 2+ weeks to help with CHAMP
Rafael Millan-Gabet came up for XX nights to help with CHAMP engineering
JDM came out for 3 weeks to help with champ commissioning (4 telescope operation!)