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-===== SONG in New Mexico Status =====
+====== SONG in New Mexico Status ======
-(updated 7/10/2024)
+(updated 3/2026)
-Major upcoming milestones:
+The SONG spectrograph is assembled and carrying out science observations at Apache Point Observatory.
-  * <del>Mount focal plane unit on port 2, test guiding with/without iodine cell (9/4/2024)</del>
-  * <del>Visit by F. Grundahl (Aug. 4-17)</del>
+Major milestones:
-  * Initial alignment and collimation of spectrograph
-  * <del>Manufacture aluminum focal plane platform</del>
+  * Integration with SONG network, January 2026
-  * <del>Finalize focal plane unit design</del>
+  * Commissioning has begun, October 2025 --->
-  * Test image quality and dome seeing
+  * FIRST LIGHT! October 2, 2025
-  * <del> PW1000 install, January 17/18, 2024</del>
+  * Fiber installed in conduit. September 2025
-  * <del> Receive iodine cell </del>
+  * Received optical fibers. July 2025
-  * <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 NEW MEXICO BLOG
+/* [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/121YM588cNT02rtwVfPMpzanRou6X_87ysWjweu6i8ns/edit?usp=sharing|SONG NEW MEXICO BLOG]] */
+===== SONG Newsletters =====
+  * March 2026, Vol. 1: {{ :docs:song-newsletter-vol-1.pdf |}}
+  * March 2025, Vol. 0: {{ :docs:song-newsletter-vol-0.pdf |}}