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| === Additional telescope and instrument discussion === | === Additional telescope and instrument discussion === |
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| March and April are busy months with numerous visitors coming to the site. BYUCam on ARCSAT is ready for community use. The Agile image timestamps are accurate but the sync issue is still being investigated. The ARCTIC diffuser rotation issues that were seen during cold temperatures has been fixed. The control software is not giving a valid rotation flag (i.e. when it is rotating at speed the flag is not registering). We recommend that users continue to use the instrument (with the diffuser rotation) as is. It looks like the rotation is still happening at proper speed; it may be slightly below the nominal 2 Hz threshold but until Bill can take it apart and clean it we won't know for sure. For this week, as long as the star's diffraction spikes are being smeared out it should be considered acceptable for science (if not, we recommend defocussing the instrument a bit). There is an issue with a ghost image in the TripleSpec data that Russet is investigating. We are meeting with Lowell Observatory engineers next week to discuss M1 realuminization. Users are urged to upgrade to python3 if they have not already done so, and to use the latest python3 version of TUI. Because python2 is no longer being supported we will not be able to support or troubleshoot python2-based version of TUI any longer. | March and April are busy months with numerous visitors coming to the site. BYUCam on ARCSAT is ready for community use. The Agile image timestamps are accurate but the sync issue is still being investigated. The ARCTIC diffuser rotation issue that was seen during cold temperatures has been fixed. The control software is not giving a valid rotation flag (i.e. when it is rotating at speed the flag is not registering). We recommend that users continue to use the instrument (with the diffuser rotation) as is. It looks like the rotation is still happening at proper speed; it may be slightly below the nominal 2 Hz threshold but until Bill can take it apart and clean it we won't know for sure. For this week, as long as the star's diffraction spikes are being smeared out it should be considered acceptable for science (if not, we recommend defocussing the instrument a bit). There is an issue with a ghost image in the TripleSpec data that Russet is investigating. We are meeting with Lowell Observatory engineers next week to discuss M1 realuminization. Users are urged to upgrade to python3 if they have not already done so, and to use the latest python3 version of TUI. Because python2 is no longer being supported we will not be able to support or troubleshoot the python2-based version of TUI any longer. |
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| === All Other Business === | === All Other Business === |
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| The June 2023 AAS meeting will be held in Albuquerque on June 4-8. Although we are not normally in the habit of having an exhibitor booth at the summer meetings, particularly after just having been at the winter meeting, we (APO) will have a booth at this meeting given its proximity to APO. This represents an excellent opportunity to highlight exciting science results enabled by a New Mexico-based astronomical facility like APO. If anyone from our ARC member institutions is planning to attend the June AAS meeting please let Nancy know so we can promote their work! | The June 2023 AAS meeting will be held in Albuquerque on June 4-8. Although we are not normally in the habit of having an exhibitor booth at the summer meetings, particularly after just having been at the preceding winter meeting, we (APO) will have a booth at this meeting given its proximity to APO. It represents an excellent opportunity to highlight exciting science results enabled by a New Mexico-based astronomical facility like APO. If anyone from our ARC member institutions or lease partners is planning to attend the June AAS meeting please let Nancy know so we can promote their work! |
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