Stellar Observations Network Group (SONG): SONG in New Mexico

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 ===== SONG in New Mexico Status ===== ===== SONG in New Mexico Status =====
-(updated 7/10/2024)+(updated 10/5/2025) 
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 +The SONG spectrograph is assembled and awaiting first light at Apache Point Observatory.
  
 Major upcoming milestones: Major upcoming milestones:
-  * Visit by F. Grundahl (Aug. 4-17) + 
-  * Initial alignment and collimation of spectrograph  +  * FIRST LIGHT! October 2, 2025 
-  * Manufacture aluminum focal plane platform +  * Fiber installed in conduit. September 2025 
-  * <del>Finalize focal plane unit design</del> +  * Received optical fibers. July 2025
-  * Test image quality and dome seeing +
-  * <del> PW1000 install, January 17/18, 2024</del> +
-  * <del> Receive iodine cell </del> +
-  * <del> Receive echelle grating </del>+
          
  
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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. 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.
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 +[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/121YM588cNT02rtwVfPMpzanRou6X_87ysWjweu6i8ns/edit?usp=sharing|SONG NEW MEXICO BLOG]]
  
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