Spain Maintenance Trip -- 30th Jan - 11th Feb (Comms are mainly offline)

The maintenance work is going well and is ahead of schedule, we are happy to say :)

• Pier -1 has a new mount
• Pier -3 focuser is now working again
• Pier-11 filter wheel has been sorted
• Pier-13 Is almost finished
• Pier-14 Epsilon 160 is now just awaiting being cabled, then we can begin testing
• Pier-15 sigma 105 Mono is now just awaiting being cabled, then we can begin testing

Today we are sorting Pier 4 & 16

We still have lots to get done, however!

Some quick snaps from the trip so far, including a rare one of Peter Shah working! :)

Steve

Pier-14 is now setup wired and ready for testing this evening, plus a quick snap of me slumming it at the complex....

Piers 4 and 16 are now almost in, plus a view of the morning walk-up to the observatory :)

Hi all, Pete & myself will be back at work on Monday, it was a long hard trip that ended with a storm in the bay of Biscay so we were delayed even further getting home, so we are taking a few days of rest as working day and night in Spain for almost 2 weeks is a tad tiring :)

Any outstanding issues or support tickets will be dealt with then !

To get you up to speed with the maintenance trip:

Piers - 1, 2, 3, 5 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, are all working
Piers - 4, 8 needs curved and a model
Piers - 13, 15,& 16 need curves

We are just waiting for the weather to turn in the next few days and these will all be done :)

Steve