472 JIRA Awaiting input from SOAR and Facilities

#472 JIRA • Awaiting input from SOAR and Facilities. • Note: this JIRA will not compete with existing JIRAs, but will largely incorporate them and allow for graceful future growth.

JIRA needs • We are already using most of our JIRA seats and will need more if we are to allow for needed aliases. • The best route is to upgrade our existing licenses to 500 seats: JIRA $3, 000 JEMH $800 Email parser $125 The. Scheduler $175 Timesheet reports and gadgets $75 Total $4, 175 • Also need to claim ~1 month of Petri’s time. • Schedule is largely as Petri is able to make progress.

#470 Blanco M 1 active optics upgrade • We are in full controller board fabrication mode: – We have 20 of 40 (min 33) boards completed – We have 3 of 40 (min 33) manifolds completed • Victor Robledo is off sick, so no progress in ~3 weeks. • It is not unreasonable to suppose we will complete fabrication by the end of July, deployment can then proceed piecemeal.

#443 Blanco TCS upgrade • Right now, the highest visibility item is non-sidereal tracking. – Scope is currently limited to unguided DECam imaging. • F 8 will require work on the guider – Testing will start next week to see how well the telescope behaves at different tracking rates. – If all is well and no new servo filter design is required, this is likely to be a coding project and will require ~1 month of a software engineer’s time. Rolo says he can work on this and the SOAR TCS in parallel. – If servo tuning is required, we will have to explore the extent to which we want to provide this facility. – ACTR: should we spawn this off as a separate project?

#462 Blanco aluminizing chamber • Patricio visited Kitt Peak to investigate their system. • We still need to identify an engineer to lead this. – Plan for realuminizing Blanco M 1 in 2016 – We require someone to get started on preparations in 2015 A.

#442 DECam-CTIO • Waiting for final installation of covers to close this project. #471 Cass cage cart upgrade • No movement, not required until 2016 barring emergencies. #480 Blanco Mirror Lift Upgrade • Patricio visited Kitt Peak to investigate what they have done. • Not required until 2016 barring emergencies

#483 f 8 Handler (electronics) • Not sure, need to talk to Manuel (busy with Cass rotator), but progress was good. #484 f 8 Handler (mechanics) • No progress. It’s not even clear who is supposed to do this. It’s been 9 months since this task was identified.

New ACTR projects • Disaster scenario studies: – Replacing failed CCDs in DECam – Replacing a DECam hexapod leg – Obtaining a spare drive motor • Blanco non-sidereal tracking