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-Attending: Nancy Chanover (NMSU), Jamey Eriksen (APO), Gordon MacDonald (APO), Joanne Hughes (Seattle U), Aleksandr Mosenkov (BYU), Eric Bellm (UW), Anne Verbiscer (UVa), Misty Bentz (GSU), Ben Williams (UW), Kevin Schlaufman (JHU), Misty Bentz (GSU), Eric Nielsen (NMSU), Chip (UWy), Russet McMillan (APO)+Attending: Nancy Chanover (NMSU), Jamey Eriksen (APO), Gordon MacDonald (APO), Joanne Hughes (Seattle U), Aleksandr Mosenkov (BYU), Eric Bellm (UW), Anne Verbiscer (UVa), Misty Bentz (GSU), Ben Williams (UW), Kevin Schlaufman (JHU), Misty Bentz (GSU), Eric Nielsen (NMSU), Chip Kobulnicky (UWy), Russet McMillan (APO)
  
 === User feedback and comments from institutional representatives === === User feedback and comments from institutional representatives ===
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 June is going to be a busy month with multiple groups visiting, as indicated in the above report. Russet reports that recent engineering data with DIS show that the red side is looking a bit better and  June is going to be a busy month with multiple groups visiting, as indicated in the above report. Russet reports that recent engineering data with DIS show that the red side is looking a bit better and 
-DIS: red is kinda usable, looking better, throughput is half as good as it was last month, blue is still painful +is "kinda usable," although the throughput is about half as good as it was last month (which was already much lower than where it should be). The blue channel is still poor. To make these determinations she used DIS to observe a standard star, a planetary nebula to assess the broadening of emission lines, and the recent supernova in M101 (to get observations of it with as many APO instruments as possible).
-standard star, planetary nebula to look at broadening of emission lines, and SN in M101 to get as many instruments+
  
-** Shutdown will start on July 26 and the anticipated return to science is August 22 ** (although that could slip by several days if the weather during engineering recovery is poor). +To reiterate from last month, ** summer shutdown will start on July 26 and the anticipated return to science is August 22 ** (although that could slip by several days if the weather during engineering recovery is poor or if the coating process takes more time than anticipated).
-if coating fails push by ~ 3 days+
  
-visit from NMSU administration  +Last Friday APO hosted a visit from the new NMSU Provost. A site visit is helpful for our institutional administrators to see the nature of the facility and learn more about their research investment. Some institutional representatives will have an opportunity to visit APO this November in conjunction with the ARC Board of Governors meeting, but we would welcome other visits from institutional administrators if there is ever a need or desire to schedule one.
-others +
  
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 === KOSMOS update ===  === KOSMOS update === 
  
-Investigating scattered light concern+We have received several reports of scattered light being a problematic issue for certain types of observations with KOSMOS. We have been in contact with the affected users and have a meeting scheduled to discuss it and learn more about it next week; a mitigation plan will be forthcoming after that. This concern has been prioritized and we look forward to gaining a better understanding of the problem next week.
  
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 === Q3 3.5m scheduling === === Q3 3.5m scheduling ===
  
-schedule in progress, should be able to publish in a few days, very little open time in Q3, if difficulties with shutdown / recovery might have less open time +The Q3 schedule is in progress and we expect to publish it in a few days. Challenges in building the Q3 schedule include a class visit in July, a visiting instrument run, and the fact that several users will be attempting to observe Venus in the pre-dawn hours. Due to the fact that Q3 is a short quarter because of the summer shutdown there will be very little DD or OPEN time available (and there could be even less if there are difficulties with summer shutdown or recovery). **UC reps: please urge your users to review the Q3 schedule and let us know immediately if there are errors**; it will be much more challenging to fix them later in the quarter since we will have very little flexibility in the schedule.
-1 class visit in July +
-1 visiting instrument run +
-VENUS+
  
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-=== Q2 0.5m scheduling ===+=== Q2-Q3 0.5m scheduling ===
  
-Open June 25-July 1 - not schedulable due to visiting instrument on 3.5m  +There is an open week from June 25 to July 1 but this is not scheduleable due to the fact that we will have a visiting instrument on 3.5m that will require all of the attention of the observing specialist. Once the Q3 3.5m schedule comes out we will issue a call for Q3 ARCSAT proposals. ARCSAT will be following the same shutdown schedule as the 3.5m, thus it will not be operating during summer shutdown. There have been some recent issues with BYUCam that we think we have traced to a hardware problem. We are currently encouraging people to use FlareCam and will include more information about the status of BYUCam in the Q3 call for proposals.
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-when Q3 schedule comes out we will put out call for ARCSAT rpoposas +
-not operating during summer shutdown +
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-BYUCam is having some issues - encouraging ppl to use FlareCam, include more info in call for proposals - tell users to look closely at call for proposals for more details+
  
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 === Annual Request to Update Publication Record === === Annual Request to Update Publication Record ===
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 Open action items from previous meetings: Open action items from previous meetings:
  
-  * Nancy: track down missing ARCTIC data reduction scripts for wiki. -> OPEN+  * Nancy: track down missing ARCTIC data reduction scripts for wiki. -> OPEN. Making progress on it this week.
   * UC reps: remind your users to review the Q2 schedule and request OPEN/DD time if they can make a good case for it. -> OPEN   * UC reps: remind your users to review the Q2 schedule and request OPEN/DD time if they can make a good case for it. -> OPEN
   * UC reps: Notify your users that we have funds to purchase slit masks for MOS runs with KOSMOS -> CLOSED   * UC reps: Notify your users that we have funds to purchase slit masks for MOS runs with KOSMOS -> CLOSED
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 New action items from this meeting: New action items from this meeting:
  
-xxx+  * UC reps: please urge your users to review the Q3 schedule and let us know immediately if there are errors. 
 +  * UC reps: please notify your department members of the July 31 deadline for sending Nancy listings of papers from January 1, 2022 to present that made use of 3.5m and/or ARCSAT data.
  
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 === All Other Business === === All Other Business ===
  
-xxx+None.
  
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