| Date | Operational? | Description/reason | Last updated by |
Typical Non-Operational Days |
Planned Non-Operational Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb. 18, 2025, 9:25 a.m. | Yes | Electricity back on. Observatory up and measuring on this sunny day. | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| Feb. 13, 2025, 3:44 p.m. | No | Due to yet another building electrical shutdown, system down from Feb 14 to 17. | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| Feb. 5, 2025, 9:38 a.m. | Yes | Power back on at RAL. Back to opearation. | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| Jan. 31, 2025, 12:56 p.m. | No | Out of opeartion 31 Jan to 5 Feb due to RAL global power shut down | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| March 8, 2024, 10:10 a.m. | Yes | Solar tracker stages control issues addressed - back to operation | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| Feb. 7, 2024, 8:06 a.m. | No | Azimuth stage of solar tracker faulty - dealing with the issue. | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| Oct. 13, 2023, 10:25 a.m. | Yes | New laser installed and aligned. All good. Back in opeartion. | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| Oct. 9, 2023, 7:39 a.m. | No | Spectrometer laser failure on 06/10/2023 - Laser to be replaced. | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| Sept. 7, 2023, 7:41 a.m. | Yes | Dome failure corrected. Back to fully automated operation. | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| June 16, 2023, 6:11 a.m. | Yes | After thunderstorms, dome automation out of order. Operations restricted to business hours | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| Dec. 5, 2022, 8:56 a.m. | Yes | Issue addressed. Back to normal opeartion. | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| Nov. 17, 2022, 4:16 p.m. | No | Spectrometer Source board blew up affecting firmware settings - replacement ongoing | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| Nov. 2, 2022, 8:29 a.m. | Yes | 01/11/2022 - Damaged controller eventually replaced and system back to operation. | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| May 27, 2022, 5:55 a.m. | No | On 22/05/2022 the solar traker controller failed. It is shipped for replacement. | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| May 11, 2022, 9:05 p.m. | Yes | RAL_Spectroscopy | |||
| Feb. 22, 2022, 8:37 p.m. | No | Finalizing the installation of a new roof dome for the solar tracker. | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| Sept. 9, 2021, 9:54 a.m. | Yes | Accredited as provisional station by the Network | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| Oct. 21, 2020, 6:20 p.m. | No | Currently producing data for accreditation case | RAL_Spectroscopy | ||
| Oct. 13, 2016, midnight | No | Site under development to seek accreditation | RAL_Spectroscopy |