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Magellan
Associate Director
Report
• Personnel
• Observing Statistics
• Telescope Operations
Personnel
• Mechanical Engineer hired
• In late-July, Juan Gallardo was offered the job Mechanical
Engineer in the Magellan Technical Group in Chile
• He accepted and began work on September 2
• Juan worked as a mechanical engineer at CTIO from
2000-2005, and for ALMA from 2006 to present
Personnel (cont.)
• Frank Perez
• As of July 1, Frank Perez has taken on the position of
“Magellan Technical Manager” in Pasadena
• As such, he will serve as the technical and logistics liaison
for engineers and scientists at LCO in support of Magellan
telescope operations
• During FY10/11, Frank’s effort will continue to be 80% for
Magellan and 20% for Small Telescopes
• His Magellan effort will decrease to 50% in FY11/12 once
the new Magellan Mechanical Engineer in Chile (Juan
Gallardo) has come up to speed
Personnel (cont.)
• Alan Uomoto
• As of July 1, Alan Uomoto’s title has changed to “Carnegie
Observatories Technical Manager”
• He is supervising purchasing and shipping in Pasadena,
and is also in charge of the Observatories’ shop and
technical personnel
• In addition, Alan will continue to spend 30% of his effort
working for Magellan (mostly overseeing instrument-related
issues)
Personnel (cont.)
• New Instrument Engineer position
• This position was approved by the Council beginning in FY
2011/12
• Replacement for Magellan Fellow program
• Tasks will include:
• Engineering Run support
• Night on-sky testing of all instrument modes and monitoring of
calibrated results
• Testing and maintenance of reduction pipelines
• Updates to exposure time calculators
• Refinement of observing cookbooks
• Implementation and testing of new observing scripts
• Full testing of various observing modes
Observing Statistics
14 Aug-2010 – 28 Feb 2011:
Baade
Clay
% Open
86.5%
87.8%
% Lost to Weather
11.2%
9.9%
% Lost to Telescope
1.4%
1.3%
% Lost to Instrument
0.8%
0.9%
% Lost to Computer
0.1%
0.1%
% Total Downtime
2.3%
2.3%
Observing Statistics:
Baade Downtime
Observing Statistics:
Clay Downtime
Observing Statistics
Baade Telescope Instrumentation Usage:
10 Feb 201013 Aug 2010
14 Aug 201028 Feb 2011
IMACS
69.2%
57.8%
FIRE
10.5%
32.6%
PANIC
20.3%
5.7%
--
3.9%
FourStar
9
Observing Statistics
Clay Telescope Instrumentation Usage:
10 Feb 201013 Aug 2010
14 Aug 201028 Feb 2011
MIKE
43.0%
28.5%
MMIRS
14.1%
17.4%
MagE
18.2%
14.3%
PFS
10.8%
13.0%
MegaCam
7.7%
9.8%
MIKE Fibers
1.6%
9.5%
LDSS3
2.2%
4.1%
MagIC
2.4%
3.4%
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Observing Statistics:
Instrument Usage
Instrument Commissioning
Instrument
PFS
MegaCam
MMIRS
FIRE
FourStar
First Light
2009 October
2009 October
2009 December
2010 March
2010 December
Instrument Still To Come
Instrument
IMACS Mosaic3
AO (VisAO, Clio2)
AO (BLINC MIRAC4)
M2FS
PISCO
First Light
2011B
2012A?
?
2012B?
?
Telescope Operations
• Primary mirrors:
• The planned re-aluminizing of the Baade primary mirror did not occur
do to the failure of a bearing in the LCO frequency converter. The
mirror was washed instead.
• A “rain event” on Feb 28 affected the primary mirrors of both
telescopes. This was after the Baade mirror was washed, but before
the Clay mirror washing. After washing of Clay mirror, patchy areas
persisted.
• These events will have an impact on planning re-aluminizing and
washing of mirrors next Chilean summer.
• Clay tertiary mirror:
• Coating of Clay M3 was damaged while in storage during last f/5 run
(Oct-Nov 2010). Mirror will be re-coated during the current f/5 run.
Telescope Operations
• Earthquake Monitoring:
• Baade telescope is now outfitted with set of logging accelerometers
• Data are beginning to be taken and analyzed
• Preliminary data indicate significant amplification by the telescope
structure
Telescope Operations
• Software issues:
• A long term problem with the encoders on the Cass and Folded port
rotators was recently solved
• Non-sidereal tracking control software finally appears to be working
well
• Guider and TCS software have been upgraded to deal more
gracefully with the limited available field of the guide probes on
FourStar
• Weather/Seeing facilities:
• New Vaisala weather station now functioning. A new weather web
site is being developed
• Work is nearing completion on full automation of the Magellan DIMM
End
Extra Slides
Magellan Telescopes Organizational Diagram
Wendy Freedman
Director OCIW
Chair Magellan Council
USA
Mark Phillips
Assoc. Director for
Magellan
Chile
David Osip
Instrumentation Scientist
Chile
Instrument Specialists
Chile
Ian Thompson
Assoc. Director
USA
Marc Leroy
Site Manager
Chile
Povilas Palunas
Telescope Scientist
Chile
Frank Perez
Magellan Tech. Manager
USA
Elec. Engineers
Chile
Tel. Controls Prog.
Chile
Tel. Operators
Chile
Alan Uomoto
Carnegie Tech. Manager
USA
Tel. Engineer
Chile
Tel. Mechanics &
Assistants
Chile
Carnegie Technical Staff
USA
Observing Statistics
Instrument Downtime:
10 Feb 201013 Aug 2010
14 Aug 201028 Feb 2011
IMACS
0.5%
0.4%
MIKE
0.1%
0.5%
LDSS-3
0.0%
0.0%
PANIC
0.0%
0.0%
MagE
0.1%
0.1%
MIKE fibers
0.0%
0.0%
MagIC
0.0%
0.0%
PFS
0.0%
0.0%
MMIRS
1.8%
3.3%
MegaCam
0.0%
1.5%
FIRE
1.0%
1.6%