From toomey@ifa.hawaii.edu Mon May 20 08:08:01 2002 Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 18:48:19 -1000 From: Douglas Toomey To: techgroup@jeans.ifa.hawaii.edu Cc: Karan Hughes , mchun@ifa.hawaii.edu Subject: Plans for the May Engineering run [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] Goals for the run (in order of priority) 1) Mechanical fit check of all AO and Guider hardware. includes spool, new NSFCAM mount, relay, WFS, APD, electronics and cables 2) Optical check of guider check focal positions, field of view, image quality with intensified camera and Apogee ccd exersize guider(won't be fully operational) 3) Optical check of the AO system alignment of relay to telescope aligment of WFS to relay check focal positions in WFS and NSFCAM 4) Experiment with AO This is pretty wishful thinking but if if we have made it this far I would like to try things to see what problems we have. ____________________________________________________________ Planned schedule(no schedule survives first contact with the enemy) Thursday 5/16 afternoon. Tear down system in the lab. Test fit of relay center section in the spool. Friday 5/17 pack Monday 5/20 transport systems to summit(Doug, Darryl, Greg, Day Crew?) Tuesday 5/21 day, remove old on-axis, off-axis and spool from the telescope Install new spool. No planned observing for Tuesday night. Wednesday 5/22 Install relay in spool, guider, NSFCAM mount, WFS and all electronics(some of this may be done Tuesday if there is time) (plan to observe Wednesday night although we may not be ready to do much) Thursday 5/23 Alignment tests during the day. Will need the Davidson. Observing Thursday night guider and AO tests. We will be using NSFCAM. Friday 5/24 What we do this day depends on how things are working. We may remove the relay and install the George mount and guider. We may remove the new spool and replace the old spool and camera systems. There is not much planned observing for this night. Just check out of whatever we changed that day. Time should be available for science work if we have removed the AO system. If the new guider is still on we may have some work to do with it but I doubt we will use more than the first half night. By Friday I will decide what will be removed and returned to Hilo and what will stay. There is an outside chance the system may stay on the telescope for the next run but probably not. Hopefully we can leave the new spool and guider on. This depends on the need for the offsetguider and how well the acquisition mode worked. __________________________________________________________ People schedule Doug - Up and down Monday, up Tuesday down Saturday. Darryl - Up and down Monday ,Tuesday and Wednesday Tony - Up and down Tuesday, up Wednesday down Friday or Saturday Dan - not sure Peter - Over Wednesday morning back Thursday Greg - Over Monday morning backWednesday night Greg will go up and down Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Vern - Over Wednesday morning back Wednesday night Please make your own arrangements for airtravel, HP and vehicles. Let me know what I missed. I can't wait, Doug