Commissioning Shift Information

Instructions and useful links for the LST Commissioning Shift Leaders and Commissioning Shifters.

Emergency Phone Numbers

If possible save these numbers on your private phone before traveling to La Palma. To dial any external number from the Commissioning Container you need to dial (0) first. From a cell phone do not dial the (0).

Public Emergency	(0) 112
Residencia Reception (day time)	(0) +34 922 405 500 (ORM internal: 2500)
Residencia Night Porter (night time)	(0) +34 609 554 576
LST Commissioning Shift Leader	(0) +34 676 649 025
LST Telescope Manager: Patricia Márquez	(0) +34 620 413 156
LST Commissioning Container	(0) +34 922 405 556 (ORM internal: 2556)
MAGIC Control Room	(0) +34 922 405 678, (0) +34 922 405 679 (ORM internal: 2678, 2679)
MAGIC Shift Leader	(0) +34 629 160 816

Contacts

• For questions about operations or shifts, contact the Operations Coordinator, Alessio Berti: alessioberti90@gmail.com
• For questions about safety, contact the Safety & Health Coordinator, Martin Will: mwill@mpp.mpg.de or the general mailing list lst-safety@cta-observatory.org
• For questions about the nightly schedule, use the lst-scheduling@cta-observatory.org mailing list

Preparation Before Shift

Contact the Safety Contact Person

Each LST member institute has a Safety Contact Person (SCP) as the link between the institution and its members and the safety company hired by the LST Collaboration. A list can be found in the basic safety document.

Please contact your SCP well in time before your activity (either shift or technical), typically 1 month before, so that the documentation needed can be uploaded and reviewed in time. Remember that you will be to denied to work onsite if your documentation is not in order. In particular, you need a valid health check for the work conditions on the LST site to be able to work there. Also, you will need the filled and signed "Safety and Health Checklist", i.e. the last page of the basic safety document.

Send notification and subscribe to email list

You must inform the safety committee (lst-safety@cta-observatory.org) of your intentions so that your trip can be included in the travel schedule at the LST web site in La Palma. Include the following information:

Name, email, institution
Purpose of your travel
Expected dates
Accommodation (Town name or ORM)
Phone number (How to reach you in case of emergency like fire, evacuation, etc)
Contact at home for emergencies
If you have a valid driver license in Spain and willing to drive

If you are a non-Spaniard and will work at the LST site or Mirca storage hall for more than 7 working days, you need to attach to the email a filled and signed worker displacement form. The form can be filled for up to four workers at once.

You must join the mailing list lst-onsite@cta-observatory.org. Usually you will be added to this mailing list when the shift assignments are sent around, but let the Operations Coordinator (Alessio Berti, MPP, alessioberti90@gmail.com) or the Safety & Health Coordinator (Martin Will, MPP, mwill@mpp.mpg.de) know in case you were not included. Useful information about site and working conditions is regularly shared through this list. You are in fact encouraged to use it to contact your colleagues on site. The members of this mailing list and a link to subscribe can be found here (use your CTAO credentials to login i.e. username of the form <firstname>.<lastname>@cta-consortium.org).

Read the Documentation

• Read the Safety Document and the other relevant documents on the LST Safety Website. Shift Leaders should read all documents to be familiar with the working procedures of all subsystems. Shifters should at least read the drive container, IT container and laser safety documents.
• Read the Commissioning Manual and find resources important for the operations on the Operations Website, some special instructions can be found in the Special Instructions for Shifters.
• Check the Onsite Work Schedule for works on site and who is on shift.
• Check the recent commissioning meetings to understand the more important recent problems.
• Read the recent entries in the ELOGs to understand the day-by-day activities on site.

ORM Booking

During your shift you must book a room at the ORM Residencia. Fill the form here. Where it asks you for the telescope pick "LST". Unless your institute has an account at the ORM you need to select to pay privately, also use this option if you are not sure. The form of payment can be changed on site. You might want to put in the comments you want a room in the annex apartments which are a bit cheaper, see the current rates. If you say nothing, they put you in the main building.

You can book your meals in the cafeteria through this form.

Shift Information

Shift Leader Tasks

• Fill the Commissioning ELOG every day, make sure to select the appropriate Type (Report), Category (Operation or Observation), System (LST1) and select Shift Summary. This way, the summary is sent to lst-onsite once you submit at the end of the night.
• Fill the Startup and Shutdown Checklists in the ELOG.
• Fill the work hour online sheet and make sure all shifters fill if every day.
• Report in the Commissioning meeting, Mondays 9:00 CET (8:00 La Palma time) in winter time, Mondays 10 CEST (9:00 La Palma time) in summer time, an executive summary of the weekly report.
• Check for the overall safety in the telescope area.
• Report incidents to the commissioning whatsapp group.

Commissioning Plans and Shift Schedule 2023

The overall commissioning plan can be found in the first sheet of the LST Commissioning Schedule.

Startup and Shutdwon Checklists

• Startup Checklist
• Shutdown Checklist

Monitoring

Publicly available monitoring:

• LST Weather Website
• MAGIC Weather Website
• Camera Pixel & Module Parameters and Rates
• Environmental Parameters (1 hour)
• ATS Energy Storage
• UC1 Energy Storage

Useful information and rules inside the Commissioning Container

• The password for the Wifi inside the Commissioning Container is the standard LST password.
• To use the printer, connect to it over Wifi. Spare paper can be found in the cabinet with office material. If the paper is almost empty, please inform Patricia.
• Also, inform Patricia if batteries and other material are close to empty (so before things are completely gone).
• You are allowed to eat in the Commissioning Container, but you must take high care to not soil the floor or tables. Clean up after yourself to avoid attracting mice.
• Separate trash in the different bins and always keep them closed. If the bags are full, close the full bags and keep them inside the Commissioning Container. A company comes weekly to take them away. Replace the bag inside the bin, new ones can be found in cabinet 01.

Contacts

Commissioning Responsibles

Commissioning Coordinator	Daniel Mazin (mazin@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Safety & Health Coordinator	Martin Will (mwill@mpp.mpg.de)
Operations Coordinator	Alessio Berti (alessioberti90@gmail.com)

Sub-system contacts

Camera	Takayuki Saito (tysaito2008@gmail.com), Daniel Kerszberg (dkerszberg@ifae.es)
Drive	Armand Fiasson (armand.fiasson@lapp.in2p3.fr), Inocencio Monteiro (monteiro@lapp.in2p3.fr)
Optics	Koji Noda (knoda@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp), Ladislav Chytka (ladislav.chytka@upol.cz)
Auxiliary Systems	Armand Fiasson (armand.fiasson@lapp.in2p3.fr), David Sanchez (david.sanchez@lapp.in2p3.fr)
Energy Storage	Koji Noda (knoda@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp), Daniel Mazin (mazin@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
On-site IT Center	Daniela Hadasch (hadasch@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp), IT admins (admin-ctan@cta-observatory.org)