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-===== SONG in New Mexico Status =====
+====== SONG in New Mexico Status ======
-(updated 1/25/2024)
+(updated 10/5/2025)
+The SONG spectrograph is assembled and awaiting first light at Apache Point Observatory.
 Major upcoming milestones:
-  * Finalize focal plane unit design
-  * Test image quality and dome seeing
+  * Commissioning has begun, October 2025 --->
-  * <del> PW1000 install, January 17/18, 2024</del>
+  * FIRST LIGHT! October 2, 2025
-  * <del> Receive iodine cell </del>
+  * Fiber installed in conduit. September 2025
-  * <del> Receive echelle grating </del>
+  * Received optical fibers. July 2025
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 SONG was conceived and is led by collaborators in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Aarhus University in Denmark. That group spearheaded the development of the high-precision spectrograph instrumention, which was ultimately realized at the prototype facility at the Observatorio del Teide in the Canary Islands on  Tenerife, Spain. SONG-Tenerife has been operating since 2014 and consists of the Hertzsprung-SONG Telescope. A second node has recently been built at the Mt. Kent Observatory in Queensland, Australia and is undergoing commissioning as of January 2022. A third node is under construction at a new observatory in Lenghu, China, and is scheduled to be operational by  2024. As the figure demonstrates, SONG in New Mexico will be a crucial bridge for the global network, providing required longitudinal coverage to continuously monitor stars.
+[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/121YM588cNT02rtwVfPMpzanRou6X_87ysWjweu6i8ns/edit?usp=sharing|SONG NEW MEXICO BLOG]]
+===== SONG Newsletters =====
+  * March 2025, Vol. 0: {{ :docs:song-newsletter-vol-0.pdf |}}