P60 Meeting
7 August 2003
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Present:  Derek, Brad, John Clemick
Palomar:  Mike Doyle, John Henning


P60 Status
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Mike:  Bob has been working hard on the optics.  Putting the secondary
       mirror in, possibly testing by tomorrow night.  

JH: TCS upgrades: From the list that was circulted, the first group is
       now complete except for item 5 (= "defeat manual control during
       automatic operation").  GXN interface work is now complete
       except for the "information" command.  However, none of the
       changes since last week have been tested on the actual
       telescope (as it has been locked down).  

Derek: John, since you will be leaving on vacation next week, if you
       are not able to test the new software, do you think it would be
       possible to revert to the last tested/used versions?

JH:   Yes, I can do that.  You would lose the new capabilities
       however.  
     
       Note that we now have a Polycom videoconference setup working
       in the P60 control room.


Camera / Electronics
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John:  Two parts on rush for Ernest, should be done tomorrow.  Cables
       have arrived, everything is coming along.  

       Meeting tomorrow with Jill -- will send everyone an email on
       status after that.  


Palomar Planning
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Mike Doyle:  The current 60-inch schedule for August has an Echelle
       Spectrograph observer on the nights of Aug 29-31.  Other than
       that the schedule is free.  

Derek:  What is the status of the safety upgrades?

Mike: The horn is in place.  Merle Sweet is soliciting bids on the
       backup generator.

      I have been working on the wind-screen encoder system and it is
       coming along, should be done in a couple of days.  Also, the
       weather station is getting upgraded to report more information
       from the thermal sensors.

Derek: Brad and I are thinking of coming up to the telescope next week
       to execute some more tests, including tests of the scheduling
       software.  In addition, we have a Linux box / analysis machine
       here at Caltech that we can install in the P60 control room.  

JH:  Sounds good, you should check with Palomar staff ahead of time to
       get some help starting up the systems, if I am not around.