M. Todd, C. Compton, T. Shaffer

We had a go today at pointing the FLIR Boson+ camera at ITMY with the ring heaters on at 2W per segment. In short, we were not able to see anything with the FLIR Boson+ yet. My feeling is that the camera should definitely be able to see it, as we pointed another hand-held FLIR and were able to see a bright spot where we though the test mass was (though it was pretty out of focus because the hand-held is not as great as the Boson+). The issue with the current setup is the camera pointing is not easily adjusted, and did sit centered in the camera can that we were able to fit on the viewport.

The setup with the guillotine was to take the back off of a camera can and mount the camera in there as best we could without anylenses to maximize our field of view. Then we attached the camera can and removed the guillotine to look at the ITM. We tried removing the background because the image seemed completely saturated as if it was catching a reflection from something. We tried adjusting the aperture to reduce this but had no luck. We tried removing the camera can and pointing the handheld FLIR at the ITM and saw a bright spot that looked like it could be the ITM, so we tried again with the camera can slightly rotated to see if the seating in the camera can was an issue --- again without any luck.

Overall, I think it deserves another test using a pitch-yaw mount or something and a little bit smaller footprint so that it fits in the camera can more easily. Additionally, we should see what the lenses are for the other cameras used pointing at the ITMs, as they will probably be useful. 

I also found a Windows GUI that interfaces with the camera a little more customizably, which may be useful for future tests as well.