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| === Additional site, telescope and instrument discussion === | === Additional site, telescope and instrument discussion === | ||
| - | We had one on-site | + | We had one on-site 3.5m user in February. The first of two groups of students from CU arrived on Sunday evening and they had their first night of training last night. Hopefully the weather will improve for them soon. |
| We continue to have troubles with the ARCTIC vacuum system. We warmed the camera up yesterday; today we should receive the replacement ion pumps (after the wrong model was sent to us originally). Once they arrive we are prepared to change them out and pump/cool the instrument before the next scheduled use in 1.5 weeks. We also hope to service the diffuser rotation mechanism during this down time. | We continue to have troubles with the ARCTIC vacuum system. We warmed the camera up yesterday; today we should receive the replacement ion pumps (after the wrong model was sent to us originally). Once they arrive we are prepared to change them out and pump/cool the instrument before the next scheduled use in 1.5 weeks. We also hope to service the diffuser rotation mechanism during this down time. | ||
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| Agile is back at the repair facility after lots of frustration with trying to get the camera working. It seems to perform fine while there but not at APO. We have a longer term plan for the replacement of Agile with a different camera (see below). | Agile is back at the repair facility after lots of frustration with trying to get the camera working. It seems to perform fine while there but not at APO. We have a longer term plan for the replacement of Agile with a different camera (see below). | ||
| - | Other instruments are performing nominally. The KOSMOS mask wheels | + | Other instruments are performing nominally. The KOSMOS mask/filter wheel had multiple failures during commanded moves; it gets stuck when moved often. When this happens it can be moved by hand and then it doesn' |
| - | APOLLO operational. We are trying to range to the new retroreflectors that were just placed on the Moon by the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost 1 lander. Lots of hard work from the APOLLO team at APO and GSFC has gone into preparing for this landing! | + | APOLLO |
| There is a new version of TUI available. | There is a new version of TUI available. | ||
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| === 2025 Q1 3.5m scheduling === | === 2025 Q1 3.5m scheduling === | ||
| - | UPDATE: | + | The Q1 schedule is almost full now. There are a couple of short slots still available (on Mar 19 and 22) but we have received requests for them already. We will not assign them until next week so we are still taking requests for those slots if there is something compelling or time critical. |
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| === IT Security === | === IT Security === | ||
| - | UPDATE: | + | No new announcements, |
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| * UC reps: remind your users to review the Q1 schedule and request OPEN/DD time if they can make a good case for it. STATUS: OPEN. | * UC reps: remind your users to review the Q1 schedule and request OPEN/DD time if they can make a good case for it. STATUS: OPEN. | ||
| - | Open action items from this meeting: | + | New action items from this meeting: |
| * UC reps: notify your users that there is a new version of TUI that they should download and use. | * UC reps: notify your users that there is a new version of TUI that they should download and use. | ||
| - | * UC reps: ask your echelle | + | * UC reps: ask your ARCES users to look at their flat fields and let the APO staff know if they see issues with changes in flats over the course of an observation. |
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