second half of the dome installed

weather mast installed - cloud sensor, Weather, Outside webcam, cloud sensor

UPS tested

Dome opened a bit by motors

Second half of the roof almost finish, ready for tomorrow placement on top

Weather station mast welded

Davis weather and cloud sensors left on overnight for tests, logging data to computers

ADSL connection fixed

AXIS camera confirmed working

Bought cables for network (AXIS, Zelio, ..)

Andor camera shows problems when exposing (kernel panic), I will look for solutions tomorrow (expected is that driver change will fix it)

Andor power supply connector arrived

ordered new Zelio logic through local dealer (~ 700 NZD) and 24 V power supply (~ 160 NZD)

both servers successfully ran overnight

Antonio arrived

one half of the roof was lifted and installed, Florentino is working to make motors operating

second half of the roof final assembly begins, one plate (out ot 6) is on place

bought Ethernet cables (~50 NZD) and ordered connector for additional Andor power (SATA→IDE interface, ~14 NZD)

successfully tested Apogee CCD and cloud sensor

servers preliminary integrated in rack for testing

mount arrives in a box, we are looking for interface to connect it to pier

it was discovered that we do not have power supply for Andor CCD cooling. CCD will be operational without it, Astelco should carry power supply

finished installation of the servers, going to test them with hardware

bought 1GB switch (187 NZD ~ 100 EUR)

yesterday we find out that the current ADSL Internet connection is way slow. Most probable culprit is missing splitter, that will be installed on Tuesday. Final Internet connection will be solved by own line, which will hopefully be installed sometime next week

also there is a problem with Zelio logic control box - the one bought is incompatible with network module. Temporal solution is to run roof without network control in manual mode, final solution will be in replacement of the Zelio control. The problem is pending confirmation from Schneider-Electrics.

dome is nearing completion

one half of the roof is complete, second half waits for plates to be mated to sites - that will take a few days. I expect that will be finished on Tuesday or Wednesday

Florentino is working on motors, hopefully they will be ready within few days

our servers are up and running, I am installing operation system and RTS2 on them

looking for options how to get network connected to the observatory