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| * NMSU - nothing to report | * NMSU - nothing to report | ||
| * Washington - nothing to report | * Washington - nothing to report | ||
| - | * Wyoming - Chip had just returned from APO, where he brought 6 graduate students and 1 undergraduate for an observing/ | + | * Wyoming - Chip just returned from APO, where he brought 6 graduate students and 1 undergraduate for an observing/ |
| * Georgia State - nothing to report | * Georgia State - nothing to report | ||
| - | * Oklahoma | + | * Oklahoma - nothing to report |
| * BYU - nothing to report | * BYU - nothing to report | ||
| * Colorado - nothing to report | * Colorado - nothing to report | ||
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| === KOSMOS update === | === KOSMOS update === | ||
| - | Over summer shutdown several KOSMOS-related tasks were accomplished. We reduced the brightness of the internal calibration lamps by putting an ND filter in place. This will affect flat fields and arc lamps, but since observers need to acquire | + | Over summer shutdown several KOSMOS-related tasks were accomplished. We reduced the brightness of the internal calibration lamps by putting an ND filter in place. This will affect |
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| === Summer shutdown recap === | === Summer shutdown recap === | ||
| - | The problems that we had been having with the secondary mirror have not been recurring since shutdown; we hope it was resolved by the change in hardware that was made during shutdown. We are still vulnerable to a possible recurrence of the tertiary problem had a few months ago but this is not a frequent issue so we hope it will not recur, The telescope came back together nicely after shutdown and we had good luck during the initial part of the shutdown recovery period. We expect to have good pointing with all instruments, | + | The problems that we had been having with the secondary mirror have not been recurring since shutdown; we hope it was resolved by the change in hardware that was made during shutdown. We are still vulnerable to a possible recurrence of the tertiary problem |
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| The ARC Board of Governors meeting is on Monday November 7. Nancy, Ben, and some of the observatory staff are starting to gather the relevant data and prepare their presentations. | The ARC Board of Governors meeting is on Monday November 7. Nancy, Ben, and some of the observatory staff are starting to gather the relevant data and prepare their presentations. | ||
| - | The January 2023 AAS meeting will be 8-12 January in Seattle. There will be lots of UW users there, and hopefully many from other ARC institutions and lease partners as well, We discussed options for doing something special | + | The January 2023 AAS meeting will be 8-12 January in Seattle. There will be lots of UW users there, and hopefully many from other ARC institutions and lease partners as well, We discussed options for doing something special |
| - | Later: need help w/booth | + | We will definitely have an APO booth in the exhibit area, so in a month or two Nancy will be looking for volunteers to help us staff the booth. Stay tuned! |
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| Open action items from previous meetings: | Open action items from previous meetings: | ||
| - | * Nancy: start investigations re: short wavelength throughput (climate data, other facilities). Status: OPEN. Nancy reached out to some colleagues at other observatories to ask about short wavelength performance degradation of their optical coatings. She got some names from Bill and will contact those individuals next. The ongoing discussions about new coatings for the primary also relate to this issue so we will determine our coatings first before continuing to pursue this line of investigation. | + | * Nancy: start investigations re: short wavelength throughput (climate data, other facilities). Status: OPEN. No news. Old news: Nancy reached out to some colleagues at other observatories to ask about short wavelength performance degradation of their optical coatings. She got some names from Bill and will contact those individuals next. The ongoing discussions about new coatings for the primary also relate to this issue so we will determine our coatings first before continuing to pursue this line of investigation. |
| * UC reps: notify your users of remaining open/DD time in Q3. -> CLOSED | * UC reps: notify your users of remaining open/DD time in Q3. -> CLOSED | ||
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| * UC reps: remind your users to send Nancy all publications through 2021 by August 31, 2022. -> CLOSED | * UC reps: remind your users to send Nancy all publications through 2021 by August 31, 2022. -> CLOSED | ||
| - | * Nancy: track down resources for KOSMOS flat fielding and post them. | + | * Nancy: track down resources for KOSMOS flat fielding and post them. -> CLOSED. |
| New action items from this meeting: | New action items from this meeting: | ||
| - | xxx | + | * UC reps: please poll your users to see if they would be interested in an APO-related event (e.g. a meal or reception one evening) during the Jan. 2023 AAS meeting. |
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| === All Other Business === | === All Other Business === | ||
| - | xxx | + | None. |
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