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| Attending: Nancy Chanover (NMSU), Jamey Eriksen (APO), Michael Hayden (OU), Moire Prescott (NMSU), Misty Bentz (GSU), Sarah Tuttle, (UW), Joanne Hughes (Seattle U), Bill Ketzeback (APO), Ben Williams (UW), | Attending: Nancy Chanover (NMSU), Jamey Eriksen (APO), Michael Hayden (OU), Moire Prescott (NMSU), Misty Bentz (GSU), Sarah Tuttle, (UW), Joanne Hughes (Seattle U), Bill Ketzeback (APO), Ben Williams (UW), | ||
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| * Washington - nothing to report | * Washington - nothing to report | ||
| * Georgia State - nothing to report | * Georgia State - nothing to report | ||
| - | * JHU - nothing to report - KS's auto data reduction for ARCES failed | + | * JHU - Kevin reported that his automated |
| * Colorado - nothing to report (received by email) | * Colorado - nothing to report (received by email) | ||
| * UVa - nothing to report | * UVa - nothing to report | ||
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| 2) Operations | 2) Operations | ||
| - | 3.5m Telescope: The tertiary rotation system was repaired by replacing a power supply, a voltage regulator on a board, and a high resolution encoder. | + | 3.5m Telescope: The tertiary rotation system was repaired by replacing a power supply, a voltage regulator on a board, and a high resolution encoder. The telescope is experiencing position errors in azimuth direction reversals that is currently not well understood. Pointing performance is affected slightly by this error, and investigations are underway. |
| 0.5m Telescope: | 0.5m Telescope: | ||
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| === Additional site, telescope and instrument discussion === | === Additional site, telescope and instrument discussion === | ||
| - | Control | + | Bill provided some additional information about the telescope error described above. The telescope control |
| - | Problem when cooled/ | + | |
| - | APOLLO spare booted up yesterday - back to observing on Monday hopefully | + | |
| - | Moire asked about proceuude for remote training postdoc | + | After the Agile TEC was replaced there was still a problem with the detector when it was cooled and tested. The repair folks are still diagnosing this. |
| + | The APOLLO spare computer booted up yesterday, so we are hopeful that APOLLO observations will resume as scheduled next week. | ||
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| + | In response to a question Nancy reviewed the procedure for getting a postdoc or PhD-level researcher trained on the 3.5m. | ||
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| We have some unassigned time in Q4 (Oct 26B, Nov 23B and 28B (short), and several in December). Users should look at the schedule and follow the usual channels for requesting this time (i.e. email Russet, Amanda, Ben, Nancy and their institutional scheduler when submitting requests, and provide a proposal cover page if you don't already have a program scheduled for the current quarter). | We have some unassigned time in Q4 (Oct 26B, Nov 23B and 28B (short), and several in December). Users should look at the schedule and follow the usual channels for requesting this time (i.e. email Russet, Amanda, Ben, Nancy and their institutional scheduler when submitting requests, and provide a proposal cover page if you don't already have a program scheduled for the current quarter). | ||
| - | Make sure users are responding | + | UC reps: Please remind your users to respond to their set-up emails at least 24 hrs in advance |
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| === 2024 Q4 0.5 scheduling === | === 2024 Q4 0.5 scheduling === | ||
| - | The Q4 ARCSAT scheduled is posted | + | The Q4 ARCSAT scheduled is posted. |
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| === Website Modernization Effort === | === Website Modernization Effort === | ||
| - | + | Ben reported that he started using the new website as the default | |
| - | See minutes from last month - Ben started using it so he can find stuff that breaks. CHANGE HABIT to | + | |
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| Open action items from previous meetings: | Open action items from previous meetings: | ||
| - | * Nancy: get ROM costs for new KOSMOS grisms. Sarah reported that she has a finalized quote from one vendor. | + | * Nancy: get ROM costs for new KOSMOS grisms. Sarah reported that she has a finalized quote from one vendor. |
| - | * Nancy: Ensure that a short description of the impact of satellites be posted on the APO website somewhere and updated every 6 months or so. STATUS: OPEN. Waiting for new web site deployment may not be the best approach. Nancy will get examples of this issue from Anne Verbiscer and get something added to the current web site before the next meeting. | + | * Nancy: Ensure that a short description of the impact of satellites be posted on the APO website somewhere and updated every 6 months or so. Nancy received |
| Open action items from this meeting: | Open action items from this meeting: | ||
| - | * UC reps: remind your users to review the Q4 schedule and request OPEN/DD time if they can make a good case for it. Status: CLOSED. | + | * UC reps: remind your users to review the Q4 schedule and request OPEN/DD time if they can make a good case for it. |
| - | * UC reps: BoG science | + | * UC reps: remind your users that Nancy needs to receive all science |
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| === Next meeting === | === Next meeting === | ||
| - | The next meeting will be on November 5 (?) at 10:30 MST. | + | The next meeting will be on November 5 at 10:30 MST. |
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