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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 Kobulnicky (UWy), Russet McMillan (APO)

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1. Overview
2. Operations
   1. 3.5m telescope
   2. 3.5m instruments:
      • KOSMOS:
      • ARCTIC:
      • Agile:
      • Echelle:
      • DIS:
   3. 0.5m telescope & instruments:
3. Other

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.

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.

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.

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.

book-keeping surveys heads-up for Q4

book-keeping surveys heads-up for Q4

Please send Nancy any references for 3.5m-related publications (anything published from Jan 1 2022 to now). The deadline is July 31. Understanding the scientific usage and impact of the telescope is critical for evaluating future projects, initiatives, instrument concepts, etc., thus we need your help in updating our publication record! We are now participating in a cross-observatory analysis of scientific impact of ground-based telescopes, so it is especially important that we capture all publications resulting from APO observations. Any publications resulting from ARCSAT data are also requested. The listing should include refereed publications and student theses and dissertations (not conference abstracts unless they are peer reviewed) that made use of data acquired with the 3.5m and/or ARCSAT, published from 2022 to the present. If a paper has been submitted to a journal but has not yet completely gone through the review process, please include that as well, with the name of the journal and “submitted.”

Open action items from previous meetings:

• 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: Notify your users that we have funds to purchase slit masks for MOS runs with KOSMOS → CLOSED
• UC reps: Notify your users of the summer shutdown dates, and remind them when submitting their Q3 proposals that the return to science date is dependent on good weather during the recovery engineering time. → CLOSED
• UC reps: Have any department members who are planning to attend the summer AAS meeting and present APO-related science contact Nancy. → CLOSED

cookbook on how to make MOS masks?

New action items from this meeting:

• 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.

None.

The August meeting, which would be scheduled for August 1, will be canceled as it will be in the middle of summer shutdown. Therefore our next meeting will be on September 5, and we will use that opportunity to discuss our return to operations in late August at the conclusion of the summer shutdown.