Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 21:42:33 -0600
From: "s. a. snedden"
Subject: Shakedown extras report
Here is the shakedown status of the "small systems"
Cloud camera:
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Bill and Steph adjusted the center of the cloud camera Wednesday
evening. Now the software mask of the trees and tripod match the images
of trees and tripod. This should give us greater dynamic range on the
scaled image (the second image on the web page). It should make no
noticeable difference on the "difference image" at the top of the web
page.
PT:
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Steph checked the PT pointing again. She removed the pointing terms and
did another equatorial and meridian sweep. There was no big difference
at first glance, but she will look at the images in more detail later.
Quite frankly, it looks like we don't even need a pointing model for PT
patch purposes. It's nice to have a huge FOV. The PT is ready for
operations.
DIMM:
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DIMM is unuseable until Monday. Steph & French set the DIMM up to test
the alt. slewing/tracking. While doing an alignment, the main fuse on
the motherboard blew. French suspected the new alt drive cable might be
wired wrong, so he replaced it with the old cable and replaced the fuse.
The DIMM was aligned and set to Polaris. After about fifteen minutes,
the connection to the Meade was lost. Sure enough, the fuse had blown
again. We have a brand new problem that French will assign to his crew
for Monday.