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This is the "to do" list for the Shared Skies project.
This is the "to do" list for the Shared Skies project.


Last update: March 29, 2011
Last update: January 1, 2018




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'''Tasks'''
'''Tasks'''


All-sky camera the on EDG building roof platform
Complete environmental links to allow safe remote operation.


Repair of site camera's sticky iris
Implement astrometry-based guiding on CDK20S and CDK700.


Test new XmTel and XmCCD versions at night
Build web-based remote control or monitoring software.


Receipt of shipment of equipment for CDK20S (awaits shipment from US)


Installation of Wacom field camera on CDK20S
'''Notes'''


Installation of U16M and IFW filter wheel on CDK20S
Minerva South or Minerva Australis construction is complete.  Shared Skies is  independent of Minerva.


Install new rain monitor


Clean optics


Install new servers at Mt. Kent
== Moore ==


Work on refurbishments of dome for CDK700 (target May 2011 for CDK700 installation in June)


Replace CDK20S mount with A200HR
'''Tasks'''


Make FSQN or another telescope available to students on line


'''Notes'''
Implement Galil controller as an option for MORC to allow absolute encoding


Shipment of parts to Mt. Kent
Remove droplines and replace with wireless or contact based dome interface on CDK20N and MORC


Delivery date on CDK700 is June 2011
Exterior painting in spring 2018


New rain monitors are installed at Moore and will be shipped to Mt. Kent
Upgrade fiber to 1 Mb/s planned for early 2018




== Moore ==


'''Notes'''


'''Tasks'''
Roll roof motor relays replaced and interlocks rewired in preparation for remote operations.


Test firewire video  from CDK125 for live planetary imaging (current)


Install Planewave A200HR replacement mount for CDK20N
== Mt. Lemmon ==


Test Apogee U16M and IFW filterwheels on CDK20N with new mount
Replace filter wheel on the ULMT telescope with a more reliable wheel


Complete software pipeline for remote/autonomous operation of CDK20 photometry
Add Linux VM to the control system options


Complete web interface for remote operation of CDK20's (prototype by September 5)
Add a small formfactor CPU at the telescope to reduce cable lengths


Install new control for CDK125 focus and temperature using Galil RIO


Connect rain monitor to remote operations control


Clean optics (September)
== Software ==


XmTel driver for Ascension 200HR


Design, build, and install remotely operated mirror covers (late 2011)
'''Remote'''


Test small and large echelles with RC24 (summer 2011)
Integrate systems with web interface for remote operation


Ship completed small echelle to Mt. Kent for use with CDK700 (August 2011)
Complete scheduler software to connect to remote operations




'''Notes'''


Rain monitors are back ordered
'''XmTel'''
 
Roll roof remote operation requires wiring limit switches.


Paramount/Linux driver in beta test August 10, 2010.
Add hand paddle control to Galil systems


U16M and IFW have been installed on CDK20N and will be tested in August.
Update for MORC24  including use of absolute encoders


New FSQ delivered in July for co-mounting with CDK125 in August.


== Software ==


'''XmCCD'''


'''XmDome'''
Fix issues with region selection


Dome on CDK20S points incorrectly around zenith
Update SBIG library when libraries are available


There are some places where dome partly obscures scope


Tests needed for discontinuity in mapping telescope pointing to dome azimuth, possibly causing unexpected dome slews
'''Linux'''
 
 
'''XmTel'''


Focus readout in xmtel not working on CDK20S (possibly corrected in lastest XmTel build for CDK20S)
Systematically update OS's to latest Opensuse releases


Tracking on prototype mounts does not permit unquided exposures longer than 10 seconds
Add Linux VM  at ULMT

Latest revision as of 08:51, 1 January 2018

This is the "to do" list for the Shared Skies project.

Last update: January 1, 2018


Mt. Kent

Tasks

Complete environmental links to allow safe remote operation.

Implement astrometry-based guiding on CDK20S and CDK700.

Build web-based remote control or monitoring software.


Notes

Minerva South or Minerva Australis construction is complete. Shared Skies is independent of Minerva.


Moore

Tasks

Make FSQN or another telescope available to students on line

Implement Galil controller as an option for MORC to allow absolute encoding

Remove droplines and replace with wireless or contact based dome interface on CDK20N and MORC

Exterior painting in spring 2018

Upgrade fiber to 1 Mb/s planned for early 2018


Notes

Roll roof motor relays replaced and interlocks rewired in preparation for remote operations.


Mt. Lemmon

Replace filter wheel on the ULMT telescope with a more reliable wheel

Add Linux VM to the control system options

Add a small formfactor CPU at the telescope to reduce cable lengths


Software

Remote

Integrate systems with web interface for remote operation

Complete scheduler software to connect to remote operations


XmTel

Add hand paddle control to Galil systems

Update for MORC24 including use of absolute encoders


XmCCD

Fix issues with region selection

Update SBIG library when libraries are available


Linux

Systematically update OS's to latest Opensuse releases

Add Linux VM at ULMT

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