East Dome Committee Meeting Minutes
February 15, 2006
A meeting of the FBAC East Dome Committee was held February 15, 2006 at America Buffet in southwest Houston.
Attending EDC members were Bill Dillon, Joe Dellinger, and Dennis Borgman.
There were two major topics that were discussed, organizing a clean-up day for the ED,
and laying the groundwork for a TO training test.
ED Clean-up Day:
- To be held Sunday, March 12, 2006 from 1pm to 6pm.
- Clean scope fork arms.
- Clean telescope mirror.
- Organize all wall postings so they are clear and usable.
- Clean under floor and discard junk, organize what needs to be kept.
- Complete hand rail cleaning, sanding of rust spots and primering.
- Disassemble and completely clean exhaust fan and enclosure.
- Vacuum all areas.
- Clean all counter surfaces and front edge trim.
- Trim any foam filler left from previous work from outside of dome walls.
- Finish foam filling places where wasps can get in and nest.
ED Telescope Operator Testing:
Significant discussion was around what would cause a trainee to fail the TO test. We agreed that anything that they
missed that endangered themselves, their guests, or the equipment would be grounds for failure. We would also require
the trainee to be able to find at least 2 objects, either with or without the Quadrant. We agreed these 2 objects
could be anything including a bright star or the moon, they didn't have to be deep sky objects. The objective was
to determine if the trainee could handle a public night on their own in a safe way. Should the trainee fail,
we would ask that they continue work for a couple more weeks with an experienced TO and than retake the test.
Go do's and commitments were as follows:
- EDC Group - We need to agree on the list of "grandfathered" Main TO's from the list of 2005 volunteers.
- Bill Dillon - Provide groundwork document for TO testing.
- Bill Dillon - Send Dennis a list of ED trainees, with dates of training (noting Quadrant availability).
- Bill Dillon - Publish start-up check list on the web, to be linked to off the EDC page.
- Bill Dillon - Add Main TO tracking to eventual e-sign-in sheet (and/or have Cynthia track Main TO on ED Calendar)
- Joe Dellinger - Provide a clean-up day sign up sheet for the 2/17/06 FBAC meeting.
- Dennis Borgman - Have Wes add a link to the FBAC EDC page that links to EDC page on Borgman server.
- Dennis Borgman - Design main link page to provide access for all to EDC minutes and task list.
Items completed from the ED task list
- Item 3 STV - Q1 cable shorts/fragile:
- Item 32 RoboFocus power cable replacement:
Progress on open items from the ED task list
- There are 22 open items on the ED task list.
- Item 15 Joe has purchased the replacement camrol bearings. Replacement planned for April.
- Item 1 The Quadrant 4 was finally received back from AIM Controls. Testing to follow.
No new items were added to the ED task list
Dennis Borgman