TITLE: 09/21 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Aligning
INCOMING OPERATOR: Austin
SHIFT SUMMARY: H1 recovered after this morning's h1sush7 crash and was observing for most of the morning. Since then, we've struggled to align the Y arm well enough to lock. Recovery is ongoing.

• 15:47 Resumed observing following recovery of h1sush7, see alog 73026 for details
• 17:26 Lockloss - alog
• Started relocking, several locklosses before we could move off of ALS from Y arm losing lock
• 20:13 Have been working to align Y arm by hand
• 20:36 Trying initial alignment since I've moved ITMY by this point
• 21:50 EQ mode activated from 6.1 Vanuatu quake
  • 21:55 Back to calm
• Eventually I was able to get Y arm flashes good enough to lock the cavity and finish initial alignment
• 21:53 Alignment finished, Y arm transmission is still as bad as before
• 22:01 EQ mode activated from 5.7 Japan quake
  • 22:21 Back to calm

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