The week of Nov 9

This past week we had a large fraction of the Austin engineering and software groups visiting the telescope. This gave us an opportunity to make rapid improvements in the Telescope Control System and start getting the telescope ready for the installation of the first spectrograph.

With the removal of the Deployable Wave Front Sensors we were able to re-enable the guide probes and continue with their commissioning. Despite rather poor weather much of the week, the big milestone reached was the ability to now guide on the guide probes.

The software and engineering teams remain at the HET this next week and if we have some clear skies we will continue the push on commissioning of both the guide probes and refinement and characterization of the mount model.

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