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(Post title to be read in the voice of Lorenzo, with extra emphasis.) Canada Day turned out to be a very big day for us. In an attempt to dodge weather, and to allow CSBF to leave early while still putting in a full day or work, we left for the highbay at 6:00. We […] Because CSBF will be taking a long Independence Day weekend, we spent yesterday frantically putting everything together to ensure that we would have an opportunity to go out to the pad this morning (we did, tune in tomorrow/later). We had to demount the pivot and cameras, fill the cryostat then mount it. Then everything went […] Yesterday we got the biphase and star camera video (kind of) working over the air with the line-of-sight transmitters. Tristan took out his rotating chopper, so I took the chance to take pictures of it. Finally, there are the SIP installation pictures taken by Juan the day before. I ventured into the west highbay yesterday to check out mounting of Juan and Natalie’s GPS antenna boom. While there I noticed a bunch of other CSBF antennas also mounted to the sun shields. While I was busy helping Natalie and taking photos, the CSBF folks started to install our SIP. Juan was there to […] Kersplat!-alie—the occasional klutzy stand-in for Natalie known to throw laptops high in the air and damage the corner—has struck again. This time, the whole glass panel on the screen has shattered after a failure to successful navigate a flight of stairs. Due to a bad case of the Sundays, there aren’t many pictures from yesterday. […] With Mark and Tony gone, Enzo had his first full day of playing with the detector noise yesterday. In the morning, he rearranged the grounding of things, and improved the noise a lot. Everybody is very happy. Going with the unrelated theme of awesome lunch locations that we’d so far failed to experience, a crew […] Yesterday morning was a flurry of work as we prepared to remove the cryostat from the gondola so that noise tests could proceed without disrupting other gondola integration. Gondola integration progresses well: the SSS (historically named “Second Sun Sensor” or “Simple Sun Sensor”), was mounted, as were transmitters and the new floor. Star cameras are […] Andrei and Greg tested the new pinhole sun sensors yesterday, using the big powerful artificial sun lamp. By big and powerful, I mean it will melt plastic from across the room. Josh, who had arrived the previous evening with Giles, took over Mark’s new starboard side hex cell floor. Noise tests continue with increasing frustration, […] Update 25 June 2010: I’ve added some photos that Juan took during the day (to have pictures of me, as proof that I exist. Plus Juan’s a good photographer). Juan, Natalie, Laura, and I took our first full day off yesterday. The morning was spent doing laundry, swimming, reading, and otherwise lazing about. In the […] Yesterday was another quiet day. Detector noise tests continued as did programming and miscellaneous jobs. We got a bunch of new goodies, some that we ordered and some from CSBF. For some reason (maybe just the time of year) we’ve had a lot of people visiting for tours of CSBF and of the highbay. Barth […] |
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