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Period 31
AiC Report to the NOT Council and STC
43
STC meeting, November 28, 2005
&
48
Council meeting, November 29, 2005
Thomas Augusteijn, Astronomer in Charge,
NOT, Santa Cruz de la Palma
Contents
Introduction
Down Time
Main problems
General overview
Instrument use
Comments recorded in End-Of-Night & End-Of-Run reports
Operations
Environment
Safety
Additional services
Publications
Educational activities
Service observing
`Fast-Track' Service Program
Observing conditions
Building
Cooling system
Telescope
New TCS
Aluminisation
Thermal sensors
Amplifiers
CCD probe
Wavefront sensing
Mirror cleaning
Tracking
Pointing
Adapter
Autoguider
Optical Filters
ALFOSC
Detector
Photometric zero-points
Spectroscopy
NOTCam
Old detector
New detector
Holding time
Wheel bearings
Calibration unit
Filters
Spectroscopy
Focus pyramid
MOSCA
Detector
Light leak
Web page
StanCam
FIES
Building
Instrument
Reduction software
SOFIN
FRED
Data flow
Data saving
Data format and FITS headers
Data base system
Computers and software
Data acquisition system
Network connection
User account disk space
Looking ahead
Telescope and building
Cooling system
New TCS
Tracking
Wavefront sensing
Thermal Monitoring System
Autoguider
Webcams and weather station
Control room
Detector controller
ALFOSC
Camera optics
Calibration plan
Data acquisition
Spectroscopy
Polarimetry
Detector
Multi Object Spectroscopy
NOTCam
Detector
Calibration plan
User interface
Reduction package
Filters
MOSCA
Light leak
StanCam
Pick-off mirror
Filter mechanism
FIES
Building
Instrument
Software
Testing and commissioning
Computers and software
Data flow
Data acquisition system
Data saving
Operating system upgrade
Security
Various
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Thomas Augusteijn 2006-02-02