TITLE: 08/18 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 52Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Cheryl
SHIFT SUMMARY:
LOG:

Recovery from earthquake was rough. Jeff was waiting for violins to settle when I arrived, we got to Low Noise ESD ETMY and ISC_DRMI guardian said somethin about the ETMY ESD not being on. Didn't know what to do, so I pushed the "On" button on the ETMY SUS overview, which broke the lock. After that, I couldn't get past Locking ALS. Not knowing what else to do, I did an initial alignment. When I got to Mich alignment, I couldn't get locked on the dark fringe, at all. I eventually just put the alignment guardian in down and aligned the AS spot by eye, finished SRC and went back to locking. A few attempts at locking PRMI/DRMI and I was able to move on. Violins were a bit high after, but they damped down on their own. Ran A2L, which seemed to take an unusual amount of time to complete.

Back to observing at 9:20.