====== LOFAR Status Meeting :: 07 Apr 2010 ======

==== Notes from the Meeting ====

=== LOFAR status update ===

This week there is a Transient KSP busy week with over 20 participants in Dwingeloo. Results will be presented next week:

== Observations ==

The latter part of last week was spent on preparations for the Transient KSP busy week:

  * Test observations of the zenith mode of the Radio Sky Monitoring project were taken.
  * An observation of Jupiter was made on April 2nd.
  * During the Easter weekend, an observation of a pulsar was scheduled to record both interferometric and coherently added beam-formed data. Due to problems with some stations, this observation was not successful. The causes of the problem are under investigation.

== Development ==

Work on the ITRF beamserver is ongoing. Implementation is planned for this week. Next week has been earmarked as a "Control and Metadata" busy week to continue with the development of streamlined beginning-to-end observing procedures.

== Busy week plans ==

  * Transients Busy Week: April 6-9
  * CEP Maintenance day: April 12
  * Control & Metadata busy week: April 13-16
  * Magnetism KSP plenary meeting and "Busy days": April 19-23
  * Control & Metadata busy week: May 3-7
  * Pulsar Busy Week: May 10-14