TIO QUARTERLY REPORT

NAME: Ivan Aranda

FROM: 07/17 TO: 10/15

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Main activities of the period (ALL):
Nighttime operations on UT3, UT4, VISTA and VST.

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Additional activities of the period (i.e. documentation, projects,
ODs) (ALL):
Assigned to Day Time activities in the framework of DSM
intervention in UT4
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Commissioning activities of the period (ALL):
UT4 GRAAL MCM
UT4 DeCommissioning tasks: characterization of telescope
before DSM intervention.
See 2 emails I sent to Andre Pino on October 20, with reported
activities
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Training Activities (ALL):

- Instruments on training or to be certified:

none

- Talks attended:
Audit Management awareness session by Michel Frantz, August
at Control Building.

- Training attended:
Emporwerment, accountability and assertivy at Vitacura from
Aug 3 to 5. Very good results.
Python Boot Camp in Vitacura from Oct 13 to 14.

- Training or talk not attended:

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Nighttime Operations Issues (ALL):

On ASM :

Network communication problems with NEW DIMM.

We (I was WO2) went to new DIMM tower with J. Velasquez (WO1)
and manually closed its enclosure.
wasmm workstation is not reachable
See PPRS-066367

On UT3 :

TCS:
Usual UNDETERMINATE status in M1/M3 panel after focus change.
MASTER TICKET: UT3 RS position error.
See PPRS-066349

On CENTRAL CONTROL SOFTWARE :

Laser Collision in Progress alarm fired by LTCS web tool opened at

VST. Ongoing OB was aborted.
LTCS collision inconsistency with OT at VST
See PPRS-066642

On VISTA :

TCS:
Usual fatal error. Workaround applied and fixed.
Fatal error LEG 6
See PPRS-065944

According to Software (D. Del Valle), this is a known issue when an

error arises and substate does not change from PRESETTING.
Preset fail due to vtactconControl process
See PPRS-065948

Reference in MASTER TICKET PPRS-049825.

M2 tilt applied with AG
See PPRS-066000

Reference in MASTER TICKET PPRS-062514.

Preset failed due to vtactconControl process was busy and STPWAIT
command was not executed.
See PPRS-066011

Reference in MASTER TICKET PPRS-049825.

M2 tilt applied with AG
See PPRS-066012

VIRCAM:
Ellipticity unknown cause
See PPRS-065991

Assigned to Electronic group with no feedback.

ccdagpy camera failure
See PPRS-066001

Under investigation.
Ellipticity unknown cause
See PPRS-066262

On VST :

OMEGACAM:

DB values lost after a software rebuild but quickly fixed by

Software.
IA and AG Pick Stars semiautomatic
See PPRS-066611

TCS:

Well documented case of ellipticity by TIO but not yet explained,

Ellipticity due to unknown reason
See PPRS-066635

Execution loss ~1 hour assigend to TIO (I. Aranda)

Not suitable IA stars available for CCDIA1
See PPRS-066643

On UT4 :

TCS:
Usual known issue in UT units when switching focus,
M3 Rotation Stage did not reach Nasmyth A
See PPRS-066080
lt4m1m3 self reboot
See PPRS-066087
lt4m1m3 self reboot
See PPRS-066508

HBS went to STANDBY

See PPRS-066143

Cassegrain Rotator Local Interlock activated

See PPRS-066480

No loss time and VD status fixed.

VD #4 in FAILURE
See PPRS-066512

Mirror in guide probe fell off.

Nasmyth B (MUSE) Image Analysis Camera (ccdiab) does not detect
light
See PPRS-066722

Electrical outage during night time obsevations :

UT4 network communications completely down
See PPRS-066745

MUSE:

COMARCH cleaned up the filesystem.

wmuse /vltdata filesystem running out of space due to large logFiles
See PPRS-066105

SINFONI :

OB aborted with message IRACE error - exposure is still active

See PPRS-066126

These problems were due to the faulty and later replaced SINFONI
MACAO shutter :
MASTER TICKETS: MACAO Shutter in fault status
See PPRS-066481
MACAO Shutter in fault status -- New Event
See PPRS-066492
MACAO Shutter in fault status -- New Event #2
See PPRS-066501

HAWK-I during GRAAL MCM.

Initialization of Filter Wheel 2 failed
See PPRS-066723

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Daytime Operations Issues (Operations Specialists):
- N/A
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Scheduling Issues:
- None
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Technical problems of the period (ALL):
- UT4 Electrical glitch/outage on night Oct 8th
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I.O.T. Activities (ALL):
- None
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General issues / request (ALL)
- None

Date: 20/10/2016