Daily reports, NIKA2 pool week #4, Winter 2024-25 semester
First week of the NIKA2 run 71 (Cryo run 83).
This time, 8 days, starting on Monday, instead of 7 starting on Tuesday. Change of plans: we will go up to the Observatory on Tuesday as usual, hence 7 days.
Observers on-site: Philippe André, Helena Mazurek, Chiara Mininni, Ioannis Myserlis (AoD), Monica Rodriguez, Ste B. (AoD)
Operators: Kike and Frederic
NOTE by SB: if possible, please take some total power beam maps (Uranus at best); and some pol beam maps on Uranus too.
Feb 10th, Monday
The plan has changed. Spindle nr 6 is being replaced today and the operation will take until tomorrow, end of maintenance. Therefore the observations will start tomorrow.
Update on the Spindles work: yesterday the wind was rising, hence there's not been time to change the spindle motor. All electric connectors have been checked and few were found loose and have been fixed. The sub-reflector was mounted back in place. Few hours of EMIR observations were carried out as a test. During these few hours, three Spindle errors occurred.
Feb 11th, Tuesday
Chiara, Helena, Ioannis, Philippe, Stefano and maaaany others arrived to the telescope.
During maintenance, we prepare the NIKA2 setup: we open the VNC, start XEphem, start the PIIC monitors, ...
Feb 12th, Wednesday
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Feb 17th, Monday