{"id":5992,"date":"2012-11-27T18:36:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T22:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galadriel.astro.utoronto.ca\/ballast\/?p=5992"},"modified":"2012-11-27T18:41:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T22:41:49","slug":"dance-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=5992","title":{"rendered":"Dance Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a weather abort the day before, BLAST-Pol took a trip outside yesterday to the &quot;dance floor&quot;. This is a wooden platform that&#8217;s away from buildings so that GPS antennas work better, in the sun so that sun sensors work better, and away from ferromagnetic objects so that the magnetometer works better. Basically it&#8217;s where all of our coarse pointing sensors work better. And so we go there to test and calibrate them.<\/p>\n<!-- Awesome Flickr Gallery Start --><!-- - Version - 3.5.6 - User ID - 27717602@N03 - Photoset ID - 72157632114788477 - Gallery ID -  - Group ID -  - Tags -  - Popular -  - Per Page - 100 - Sort Order - flickr - Photo Size - _m - Custom Size - 0 - Square - false - Captions - on - Description - on - Columns - 3 - Credit Note - off - Background Color - Transparent - Width - auto - Pagination - on - Slideshow - flickr - Disable slideshow? - --><div class='afg-gallery custom-gallery-40' id='afg-40' style='background-color:Transparent; width:100%; color:; border-color:Transparent;'><div class='afg-table' style='width:100%'><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:33%;'><a   target='_blank' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8225487822' title='Action through the fog'><img class='afg-img' title='Action through the fog' src='https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8488\/8225487822_f1a5135c2e_m.jpg' alt='Action through the fog \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8225487822\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-title' style='font-size:1em'>Action through the fog <\/div><div class='afg-description'><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-cell' style='width:33%;'><a   target='_blank' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8224416367' title='A little closer'><img class='afg-img' title='A little closer' src='https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8347\/8224416367_bd566ef829_m.jpg' alt='A little closer \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8224416367\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-title' style='font-size:1em'>A little closer <\/div><div class='afg-description'>With a touch of colour now<\/div><\/div><div class='afg-cell' style='width:33%;'><a   target='_blank' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8224416869' title='Magnetomoter mounting'><img class='afg-img' title='Magnetomoter mounting' src='https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8341\/8224416869_9178b95549_m.jpg' alt='Magnetomoter mounting \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8224416869\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-title' style='font-size:1em'>Magnetomoter mounting <\/div><div class='afg-description'>On the front of the chin, as far from any steel as anywhere else on the gondola<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:33%;'><a   target='_blank' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8224417817' title='Anchor block'><img class='afg-img' title='Anchor block' src='https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8067\/8224417817_b6741fbf95_m.jpg' alt='Anchor block \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8224417817\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-title' style='font-size:1em'>Anchor block <\/div><div class='afg-description'>BLAST is tied down to prevent blowing over<\/div><\/div><div class='afg-cell' style='width:33%;'><a   target='_blank' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8225491188' title='BLAST and I'><img class='afg-img' title='BLAST and I' src='https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8060\/8225491188_6862d0b1f3_m.jpg' alt='BLAST and I \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; 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href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8225492780\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-title' style='font-size:1em'>Tyr <\/div><div class='afg-description'>Rocking the goggles, hard hat, and big red style<\/div><\/div><div class='afg-cell' style='width:33%;'><a   target='_blank' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8225493498' title='On the dance floor'><img class='afg-img' title='On the dance floor' src='https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8487\/8225493498_af381ce6e2_m.jpg' alt='On the dance floor \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8225493498\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-title' style='font-size:1em'>On the dance floor <\/div><div class='afg-description'><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-cell' style='width:33%;'><a   target='_blank' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8224422733' title='Barth and BLAST'><img class='afg-img' title='Barth and BLAST' src='https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8482\/8224422733_fb330e5ce4_m.jpg' alt='Barth and BLAST \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8224422733\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-title' style='font-size:1em'>Barth and BLAST <\/div><div class='afg-description'>We babysat the gondola for a while<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:33%;'><a   target='_blank' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8224423703' title='Elio'><img class='afg-img' title='Elio' src='https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8489\/8224423703_4990b43c62_m.jpg' alt='Elio \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8224423703\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-title' style='font-size:1em'>Elio <\/div><div class='afg-description'>Looking majestic<\/div><\/div><div class='afg-cell' style='width:33%;'><a   target='_blank' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8224425203' title='Snow accumulation on the cables'><img class='afg-img' title='Snow accumulation on the cables' src='https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8344\/8224425203_9499179ae8_m.jpg' alt='Snow accumulation on the cables \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; 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href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8225498644\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-title' style='font-size:1em'>The sun sensors <\/div><div class='afg-description'>Calibrating these is one of the reasons to go outside<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- Awesome Flickr Gallery End -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8060\/8225491188_6862d0b1f3_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" alt=\"BLAST and I\" title=\"BLAST and I\"> After a weather abort the day before, BLAST-Pol took a trip outside yesterday to the &quot;dance floor&quot;. 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