For the beam spot position tracking, I am wondering if there is any benefit to going for a wider field of view and getting the OSEMs in the frame? It may provide some "anchor points" against which whatever algorithm can calibrate the spot position against. But there are also several point scatterers visible in the current view, and perhaps the Gaussiam beam profile moving over them and tracking the scattered intensity from these point scatterers serves the same function? I don't know of a good solution to have a "switchable" field of view configuration in the already cramped camera enclosure though.
Also, I think it may be useful to have a cron job take a picture of MC2 and archive it (once a week? or daily?) to have some long term diagnostic of how the scattered light received by the camera changes over several months.
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The GigE is focused now and I have closed the lid. I'm attaching a picture of the MC2 beam spot, captured using GigE at an exposure time of 400µs
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