Subject: 2Q1997 DSC/SPICAM

From: elt@astro.Princeton.EDU

Submitted: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 14:48:17 -0500 (EST)

Message number: 44 (previous: 43, next: 45 up: Index)

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
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