TITLE: 08/29 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Commissioning
INCOMING OPERATOR: Patrick
SHIFT SUMMARY:
Quiet night. Range was the highest I've seen yet (see image). Also, a little pre-dawn rain made for a really interesting sunrise show ( more images)
14:45UTC planned commissioning beginning
Handing of to Patrick
LOG:
While we are pretty excited that Kara's work on Tuesday got us an extra ~2Mpcs (alog 51553), we should all remember (although it's easy to forget) that this number we report in the control room isn't the final calibrated range. The red trace in the range plot on the summary pages uses the version of GW strain that incorporates all of the extra fine-tunings on the calibration, and is a more reliable estimate of our actual range. So, we're maybe at 117 Mpcs, which is still really awesome!