See e mail from Gustavo: The February 2015 ARGOS campaign started yesterday. Matthias, Mathias and Franz from MPE are on site. The first two days of the campaign...
See e mail from Gustavo: All, Work has continued on the DX LM1 actuators by M, M and F. Julian Z. arrived yesterday, and he has been working on the alarm system a...
See e mail from Michael L.: Dear Friends of ARGOS, Yesterday (2/18/15) and today (2/19/15), ARGOS activities included the following: Installation and test of the ...
Pockels Cells Transmission test Sweep between 0.5 and 2.0us with 4 steps with Internal Sources. Then between 0.1 and 2.0 in 11 steps. The system configuration is ...
LM1 calibration DX Measuring the LM1 limit switch position as well as the optical and mechanical zero position. Lower limit AbsEnc IncEnc SW setting 1913 51...
LgswUnitDx operation 8:00: we start opertations at horizon to fix the CalUnitSystem DiodeSource problem. It seems related to the low temperature in the C ring rac...
LgswUnitDx operation 8:30: we start and we toss light on the LGSW. Using hexapod parameters of yesterday we are not in the LGSW but just in the PatCams. Today the...
19:00: bad weather, we deploy cal unit TipTiltSystemDx calibrations We start testing the TipTiltSystemDx: we set FLAO BIN4, 50 50 dichroic on FW1, WhiteLightSour...
Dome closed because of snow... IM bewteen piezo TT mirror and TS modes This IM is needed to properly offset the piezo mirror that produces the TT modulation on t...
Daytime * debug of the NaN PBL in the TruthSensing. * Test of the procedure to fit the PSF on PatCams Nighttime DARK LGSW: 20150226_021930 We set the FLAO cub...
Daytime activity DARK LGSW: 20150226_225951 PockelsCellsTransmission test To check the proper behaviour after 10 hours of rest. Scan between 0.1 and 2.0us in 7 s...
Autogain test (QC LGSW) We tested the autogain procedure in different environments: no disturb, disturb =1.2", PYR LGSW and QC LGSW. We first optimized the ...