✍️ Rubin #CommissioningNotes, entry 5️⃣: we’re making gains💪
Efficiency has been the name of the game for the past two weeks! As our team addresses the causes of data-taking interruptions, fewer interruptions occur—meaning even more data overall📈
=== Highlights ===
🌌 Our team consistently increased the number of visits captured each night. In fact, they got a record of nearly 100 in-focus visits in a single night last week using the automated software that drives Rubin’s telescope, called the Feature Based Scheduler.
The nightly average number of visits doubled overall this week, for a few reasons:
💪 Continued efficiency gains with fewer interruptions (and faster recoveries)
⏳ Less time overall between visits thanks to optimizations of the telescope control software
💨 Increasing telescope speed
===
There’s only one more week left in this testing period with Rubin’s engineering camera, ComCam! Will the team set a new record? 🤔
For more details from the past two weeks:
🔗 #1: https://community.lsst.org/t/2024-11-29-on-sky-commissioning-update/9604
🔗 #2: https://community.lsst.org/t/2024-12-06-on-sky-commissioning-update/9623
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