TITLE: 07/14 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Earthquake
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Travis
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
Wind: 4mph Gusts, 2mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.07 μm/s
Quiet at the moment with small useism & low winds.
QUICK SUMMARY:
Richard and Travis were troubleshooting IMC when I walked in. Richard asked me to run the DOWN state (Guardian was in the INITIAL_ALIGNMENT state), and this locked up the IMC. Will start an initial alignment from scratch now.
Note: OBSERVATORY MODE is in the EARTHQUAKE state. It was taken to OBSERVING last night.
Initial Alignment/Locking Notes:
INPUT_ALIGN
While running through the Input Align step, noticed big ASC signal ringing down after OFFLOADING (screenshot attached). I don't recall this happening before & just thought I'd mention it because Travis had his IMC issue during this step of INPUT_ALIGN.
MICH_DARK_LOCKED
The spot here was bright & I wasn't able to get it to the usual dark spot. I centered this spot & moved on.
Locking Issues:
So after the alignment, couldn't get much action while trying to lock PRMI (looked very quiet), and it also looked very quiet/dead for CHECK_MICH_FRINGES. So I went to DRMI locking and looked aft flashes and moved the BS accordingly. Managed to eventually get a lock. Just wondering if my alignment was bad due to issue with MICH_DARK_LOCKED.