Posted Jan 20, 2024
Resolved: LUCI1 Offline – Failure of FM4 motor
LUCI1 is again available for science observations. Some additional exercising of the fold mirror tilt mechanism appears to have freed up motion. We don’t see any dropped steps in either direction now. …
Posted Dec 15, 2023
2023-12-15 DX LUCI Pyramid Rotated – Resolved
The DX SOUL LUCI Wavefront sensor underwent a series of checkouts and performance checks on 2023-12-14. The results were analyzed and showed that the performance of the WFS is comparable to before the …
Posted Nov 29, 2023
Update Dec 8, 2023: LUCI1 released for science…with caveats!
LUCI1 is again available for science…with caveats, so please read this carefully. We are assuming that the flexure calibrations taken prior to the camera wheel failure are still valid. We …
Posted Nov 04, 2023
UPDATE (Jan 31, 2024)
Both LUCIs are available for all normal observing modes:
Seeing-limited (SL) or ESM N375 Imaging
SL/ESM N180 or N375 +G210 Spectroscopy
SL/ESM N180 or N375 +G200 Spectroscopy
Full AO N30 Imaging
Posted Oct 14, 2023
UPDATE (Aug 22, 2024)
A new replacement laser was delivered to LBTO in mid-June, and installed late-June. However with summer shutdown starting in early July it was decided to wait until SSD24 restart to align the laser. We expect TMS …
Posted Sep 19, 2023
Update 8-Feb-2024: The MODS1 blue IMCS quad cell appears to be working and there is no evidence that the workflow modification is still needed. The initial problem has not clearly been resolved, however, so please report any imcslock failures of …
