In the moderate term future and possibly as early as sometime during 2Q1997, SPICAM will replace the Fermilab DSC as the 3.5-meter's standard optical imaging camera. DSC, which was built by Fermilab for the purpose of various SDSS preparatory observations and then generously made available (with backup engineering support) to the rest of the ARC community, will eventually be entirely decommissioned and shipped back to Batavia. The two instruments are rather similar in capabilities and specs and will become more so after a few new features are incorporated into SPICAM (e.g., drift scanning). Schedulers and User Committee members, please make sure that the 3.5m users at yoru institution are informed of this impending change so that they can plan their programs accordingly. In particular, for 2Q1997, it will be assumed that any program requesting one of the instruments could use the other unless it is *specifically* stated otherwise. Ed Turner APO APO APO APO APO Apache Point Observatory 3.5m APO APO APO APO APO This is message 44 in the apo35-dsc archive. You can find APO the archive on http://www.astro.princeton.edu/APO/apo35-dsc/INDEX.html APO To join/leave the list, send mail to apo35-request@astro.princeton.edu APO To post a message, mail it to apo35-dsc@astro.princeton.edu APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO