Reports until 15:10, Tuesday 24 December 2019
LHO General
corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:10, Tuesday 24 December 2019 (54096)
H1 Back To Observing.

Almost made it all the way through Maintenance with a locked H1, but had a lockloss 12min before noon!  We had literally just made it through the peak of an Earthquake, and at that time Kyle & Gerardo were gently walking around the LVEA, BUT....Keita made a point about the still-rumbling earth post-earthquakes + people walking around in the LVEA + a nearby LN2 truck all cumatively added up to be to much for H1 to handle (& ended our 18.5hr lock).  In hindsight, I probably should have waived off the LVEA incursion until after the earth calmed down from the post-EQ noise (i.e. delaying incursion about 45-60min, or until a later opportunity).  Oh well, that's on me.

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For this Maintenance Day Light:  Although it wasn't locked the whole Maintenance Day, H1 was down from:  19:48 - 22:28utc (only ~2hrs 40min!)